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123: 116: 102: 109: 1337: 20: 1347: 921: 206:) that are sometimes referred to as maids. While some decks in southern Italy sometimes include female or androgynous knaves, the Tarocco Siciliano knaves are unambiguously and consistently women. This was a feature found in the Portuguese pattern. Since a Latin tarot deck also includes queens, this is the only traditional 71:
Tarot decks were produced in Palermo before 1630. The deck was shortened from 78 cards during the 18th century. The Tarocco Siciliano currently uses 63 cards, one more than the Tarocco Bolognese. Despite this, the pack is sold with one unneeded card, the 1 of Coins, which was used to bear the
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Players do not use the names of trumps 2 to 15, they refer to them by number. Of these cards, only the names of trumps 4, 14, and 15 are known through historical sources, the rest have been lost. The order of trumps from highest to lowest is as follows:
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of knobbly cudgels and straight swords like other southern Italian decks. The Siciliano depicts these suits like the extinct Portuguese pattern by the intersecting of the swords and clubs. The Minchiate as well as the extinct decks of the
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Trumps 1, 20, and the Fool are worth 10 points. Trumps 16 to 19 and kings are worth 5 points. Queens, knights, and maids are worth 4, 3, and 2 respectively. The five highest trumps are collectively known as the
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Tarot decks are often just expanded versions of local standard decks but this deck is not related to the standard 40-card Sicilian pack which has a separate origin. Their cards are not interchangeable.
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who is now hanged by his neck instead of by his foot. All trumps use corner indices with modern Arabic numerals from 1 to 20 with the exception of
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where it ranks as the lowest in the suit of Coins). The pip cards contain ranks 5 to 10 with the coins also having a 4. Like modern
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deck to include two ranks of women to have survived into the present. The Minchiate deck had half of its knaves female while the
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of the Latin suits of cups, coins, swords, and clubs which died out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Some portraits of the trumps borrow from the Minchiate while others are unique or altered, such as the
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Unlike the northern Piemontese and Bolognese tarocchi decks which use
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of smooth batons and curved swords, the Siciliano uses
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This deck is known for its distinctly female knaves (
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Index


Modiano
tarot
Sicily
tarocchi
Tarocco Piemontese
Tarocco Bolognese
Minchiate
Portuguese variation
stamp tax
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
French tarot




Italian suits
Spanish pips
Papal States
Kingdom of Naples
playing card
Cary-Yale tarot
Hanged Man
the Fool
"Sicilian playing cards in 15th century"
"Tarocco Siciliano, early form"
"Andy's Playing Cards - The Tarot And Other Early Cards - page II - Regional Tarots"
Dummett, Michael
McLeod, John
"Alta Carta: Sicily Tarot"

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