Tarot History: 1401 - 1500

[edit] Tarot Timeline

[edit] Tarot Related Art and History

[edit] 1401-1425

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[edit] 1401-1425

• 1417 Oddone Colonna elected pope as Martin V (1417-31)

[edit] 1426-1450

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[edit] 1426-1450

• 1428 Filippo Maria Visconti marries Maria of Savoy
• 1447 Bonifacio Bembo enters to the service of the Sforza family (the Dukes of Milan)

[edit] 1451-1476

• c. 1460 - 1494, Count Matteo Maria Boiardo writes tarocchi poem with one of the oldest references to a deck with 22 trumps.

• 1470 ca. Most likely date for the Sermones de Ludo Cum Aliis (earliest document listing all the standard tarot trumps)

[edit] 1451-1476

• 1455 Alfonso de Borja (Italian Borgia) elected pope as Callistus III (1455-58)
• 1458 Enea Silvio Piccolomini elected pope as Pius II (1458-64)
• 1471 Francesco Della Rovere elected pope as Sixtus IV

[edit] 1476-1500

• 1491 Most likely date for the creation of the Sola Busca Tarot

[edit] 1476-1500

• 1477 Last documented activity of Bonifacio Bembo
• 1475 to 1483, building of Cistine Chapel
• 1484 Giovanni Battista Cibò elected pope as Innocent VIII (1484-92)
• 1492 Rodrigo Borgia elected pope as Alexander VI (1492-1503)
• 1499 French, under Charles's successor, Louis XII, take take control of Milan and Lombardy