User:Michael Hurst/Visconti-Sforza
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The Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck generally refers to the surviving cards of a deck also known as the Pierpont Morgan-Bergamo deck. As indicated by the name, the original provenance of the deck was Milan, Italy, ruled by Visconti and Sforza dukes. The deck is commonly dated to around 1450. This makes it one of the oldest surviving Tarot decks, created perhaps only a decade after the earliest reliable references to the game.
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