The Golden Tarot Guidebook to the Visconti Sforza Deck Mary Packard

The Golden Tarot by Mary Packard Hardcover guidebook to the Visconti-Sforza Tarot No cards, guidebook only 143 pages with beautiful full color illustrations The Visconti-Sforza tarot deck is one of the oldest and most complete tarot decks in existence, dating back to the mid-15th century. Commissioned by Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, and by his successor Francesco Sforza, many of the cards portray members of the Sforza and Visconti families in period garments. Originally designed to be used to play the then-popular card game of Trionfi, over the next three centuries the cards became tools of divination, which is how they are most commonly associated today.