Visconti-Sforza Pierpont Morgan Tarocchi Deck

The Visconti-Sforza tarocchi is among the most significant surviving decks from the early history of tarot, hand-painted in fifteenth-century Milan and distributed today across three collections: 35 cards at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, 26 at the Accademia Carrara in Italy, and 13 at Casa Colleoni in Bergamo. This 80-card US Games edition brings all the surviving originals together in full-color facsimile form, with four meticulously recreated cards replacing the missing Devil, Tower, Three of Swords, and Knight of Coins.

Two bonus portrait cards of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza are also included. The cards have no titles or numbers and depict scenes from medieval Milanese life through allegorical imagery, making them as much a historical document as a tarot deck. Stuart R. Kaplan's 60-page guidebook provides context for the cards and their significance.