MILANESE TAROT by Edoardo Dotti 1862

[giordanoberti]

Around 1862 a milanese card maker, Edoardo Dotti, printed a wonderful deck created almost 15 years before by his father.
These 78 splendid cards are considered at the top of the Tarot production in the 19th century.

In March 2021Rinascimento Italian Style Art has been reprinted the Edoardo Dotti's Tarot in a limited edition of 900 numbered copies, absolutely faithful way to the original deck, so that it seems to be holding the ancient deck.
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Each deck are is numbered and hand signed by the curator, Giordano Berti, on a guarantee card.

There is a long history behind the Edoardo Dotti's Tarot. You can read it in the companion booklet : small but full of news that cannot be found elsewhere.

The booklet (60 pages with 24 color pages), written by Giordano Berti and translated into English by Adam West-Watson, traces the history of the Milanese Tarot from the early 16th century to the 1940s.

There are two absolutely unpublished chapters: one is dedicated to Tarot in daily life in Milan; the other concerns the tax stamps used in Milan between 1810 and 1947, thanks to which collectors can accurately date each Milanese Tarot.

Some very interesting pages are dedicated to Dotti's Tarot.
In summary, Edoardo was the son of Teodoro Dotti and at the death of his father, around 1860, he continued to produce this deck making only some variations to the colors.

Teodoro Dotti, in turn, had been a partner of the famous card maker Ferdinando Gumppenberg who around 1830 produced the splendid Tarot Soprafino engraved by Carlo Della Rocca.

When Gumppenberg died, around 1845, Teodoro Dotti opened his own Tarot and playing cards factory and decided to engrave his own version of the Soprafino Tarot: another jewel!

The reprint of the Edoardo Dotti's Tarot produced in March 2021 by Rinascimento Italian Style Art is available, along the booklet, in two different boxes created by the art designer Letizia Rivetti, both covered with marbled paper and with velvet inside:
Deluxe (book-shaped box)
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and Standard (2-parts box)
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Other pictures and news are on the Rinascimento's website:
https://rinascimentoitalianartenglish.w ... otti-1862/

[TheLoracular]

Beautiful. The cards are simply beautiful.


The Rinascimento website has now become a recent favorite of mine, to admire the entire catalog. All of you are just as amazing as your cards are beautiful.