Tarocchi del Mantegna

The Tarocchi del Mantegna is not a tarot deck in the conventional sense but a 50-card philosophical system organized into five groups of ten: the ranks of human society, Apollo and the Muses, the arts and sciences, the virtues, and the celestial spheres. Created at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance, the deck maps the full scope of fifteenth-century human and cosmological knowledge in a single visual system. This Il Meneghello limited edition of 1,000 decks from 2017 is housed in a handmade two-piece box bearing the famous wax seal, and includes Cristina Dorsini's book on the history and card-by-card analysis of the Mantegna.