Fautriers, a Marseille illustrator of the mid-eighteenth, designed what could be considered as the last edition of the Tarot, modified only in minor details, suspects fantastic largely by Stanislas-of Guaita and Oswald Wirth. Certainly is not Fautrier the creator of this vast symbolism, but a kind of codifier for four hundred years of collective craft which were in his hands.
Almost two centuries before Marseilles work, Garzoni knew a little less than the same Tarot (the series was called monetae, Xiphias, gladii and caducei, and valet or jack it described as the Traveler); the tarocchino of Francesco Fibbia, missing only 16 letters minor (from two to five of each suit) to enjoy similar similarity, and the ‘tarot Besançon presents only a difference in mythology: the replacement of arcane II and V (The Priestess and The Pope) by the figures of Juno and Jupiter.
There are significant variations, such as the Florentine Minchiate, who in the mid-fifteenth century offers a collection of 95 cards, of which forty were arcane, or the game called Trappola, which can not be regarded as a Tarot since, apart from minor (no queen, nor the numbers of three to six), no mysteries.
The most famous of the competitors of the Tarot is, without doubt, attributed to Mantegna Baldini also called Letters. Fifty mysteries are divided into five sets of ten cards each, and his encyclopedic trend relates more to the teaching of Chinese card (A thousand times ten thousand), than with the evolution of the Western deck. Thus, the first of tens mark the hierarchy of social classes (beggar servant, artisan, merchant, gentlem gentleman, sir, duke, king, emperor and pope), the second represents the nine muses, complemented by Apollo, the third refers to the sciences, and the fourth to the virtues. The fifth set, finally, includes the seven planets, the eighth Sphere, Prime Mobile, and the First Cause. Wirth knew that two copies of Baldini, the 1470 and 1485 – says the author, neophyte in esoteric matters, tried to expand and improve on their own model of a Tarot insufficient and that it was incomprehensible, filling gaps with these alleged concessions to the philosophy of the time.
The tarot is a means of clairvoyance with 78 arcane call letters, which used by experts for the blind clairvoyance reflected the history of men in the past, has many meanings and many forms of study.
Fautriers, was undoubtedly the father of the current Tarot of Marseilles a mid-eighteenth century, designed what could be considered as the last edition of the Tarot, modified only in minor details.
it was created in Alexandriashe after the library where was all the knowledge of the history of the humanity was burned. they joined the wise people of the world and decided to combine that lost knowledge and to put it in small boards that were not easily interpreted nor deciphered, and thus to protect its great value.
And thus the Tarot was divided in two parts: Sacred or spiritual part that is the Arcane Majors wich are 22 and the other profane part that is more commonly well-known as Spanish Deck But were until the century 17 that in Europe became very deep studies and were unified the two parts and thus it occurs to know the mallet 78 letters as nowadays it is known it.
Usually she marks in consulting a taste by the esoteric spiritual development, personal growth.
