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The greatest part of the article illustrates the local aspects of the most recent centuries, including colour reproductions of typical cards, names of card games, and even words used in playing, hardly understandable by any non-Sicilian people.
10 Ιαν 2013 · Sicilian playing cards date from medieval times and supposedly were introduced by the Arabs. They come in a pack of forty-two, with ten cards in each of the four suits. The suits are coins, cups, cudgels and swords. The number cards go up to seven, and then there is the equivalent of a young lady/princess, a cavalier, and the king.
Trionfi (Italian:, 'triumphs') are 15th-century Italian playing card trumps with allegorical content related to those used in tarocchi games. The general English expression " trump card " and the German "trumpfen" (in card games) have developed from the Italian "Trionfi".
3 Ιουλ 1996 · Salvatore Bonaccorsi, Nicola De Giorgio, Emilia Maggio: The origins of the “Portuguese” suit system for playing cards and tarots in Sicily
3 Ιουλ 1996 · Add to Collection. " Il Leon " Sicilian playing cards, 40-card pack based on Spanish designs, made in Sicily by Antonio Monasta, probably 17th century. When the Spaniards occupied Sicily, licenses were given to local card makers to manufacture cards, hence the inscription on the two of swords reads "Con licenza del Rey N.S."
The author examines the role of card playing in noble culture and in the context of wider historical problems: the transition from medieval to modern culture; the translation and perception of cultural novelties; and the relationship cards and card playing had with other forms of celebration and leisure.
Author: Andrea Pollett. Italian playing cards have a very old tradition, which dates back to six centuries ago; how long and complicated their history is can be told by the number of patterns that still today exist in this country: sixteen standard designs (not counting the few that turned obsolete) plus three different tarots, a selection much ...
