Historical knowledge starts coming into play only when the "witnesses" (the documents that the past provides the historian) and an examiner who li sappia opportunamente interrogare. Senza le domande appropriate i testimoni rimarrebbero muti, senza testimoni i quesiti rimarrebbero irrisolti. (1)
Un testimone può essere preciso, inesatto, accurato, approssimativo, veritiero, bugiardo, fallace, fazioso, imparziale, obiettivo ..., la sua testimonianza può essere intenzionale, casuale, involontaria, accidentale, artefatta , mirata, progettata ... i modi e i mezzi della trasmissione del "documento" possono essere svariati e diversi, come indefinitamente vari e differenti sono i canali e i supporti del comunicare. Comunque sia, la principale preoccupazione di uno storico è quella di far parlare i propri testimoni al order to understand what they say. In short, no "documents" can not be any historical knowledge.
(1) Since the beginning of the Greek language, in the Homeric dialect, the word history ( Histor ) stands for "witness", or "he who sees" and thus "one who knows what has informed." The word "history" comes, therefore, the Indo-European root vid , which is in greek and Latin id video, and indicates how the first approach to the pass through empirical observation and description of what you see. Only later, when the data of experience is fixed in memory, it becomes possible to bring back something that others (the witness) said he had seen. The verb ion istoreo is, ultimately, to "investigate", "explore", "observe", "suspect", "research" on how things are to be informed and history ( historia ) means the description of the observable and, therefore, its transmission through the channels of collective memory.
writes Paolo Aldo Rossi in an article in P. . 55 of the aforementioned book "Tarot Art and Magic" and you can read here .
Who is the character in this picture?
addition to the witnesses, I add that we at least have an idea of \u200b\u200bwho we are looking for. In all the readings on the Tarot, historical or esoteric, the conclusion is always the same: we will never know who invented them.
For my part, I've never been particularly attracted the Tarot, though, going to esoteric circles and characters really fans, I've heard stories about many, all different, but nothing to convince or get to whet my curiosity. In all those stories no one could give me an exhibition fair, accurate, comprehensive and above all on these 22 cards.
When I saw the pattern for the first time, things changed. The Tarot came into a logic of thought. This did result in me the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing able to trace an 'identikit of the author.
Using the historical record has been confined in time and space in the appearance of the Tarot, but only through a correct interpretation of these figures we can draw the outlines or better "line- minds s "of their creator.
Tarot without the scheme are a set of figures may simply represent the ideas and morals of the time, for example, even though shortly after the onset of tarot cards, nor the poem" Ship of Fools "1494 (click here to see all the pictures here or )
we can recognize many of these figures in the cartoons of moralizing Sebastian Brant represented by a series of woodcuts of which some have attributed to the young Dürer . Even if you do not know (for now ) similar books before the appearance of the Tarot and I know that Dürer was inspired by them, I assumed that the iconography of its own, was absolutely "normal " otherwise would not have been used to make moral people but branded as blasphemous. Fool, Magician, emperors and popes rather than devils and angels and the same wheel of fortune 
were part of those lives and those ideas in the fifteenth century it was said that thinking. They are not the figures contained in the Tarot to make them special, and only in the key we could track down what was a real "heresy " for that time. The idea that I have made the mysterious character who conceived the scheme is a heretic, what is now simply called "free thinker" , as heresy means nothing but " choice", and the heretic is therefore not merely "one who knows how to choose" . Purposely I did not use "choose" , fact that in the fifteenth century to the slightest hint of different ideas to Dogma it was sent directly to the stake. Maybe he's right here "the motive of our crime. The genius to hide in a set of figures absolutely normal , in an era of bitter complaints, and an idea which was introduced as a teaching heresy.
Heretic then, but not common. Heretic he was asked but then what do you believe?
He replied:
the question that I should rather ask is how a belief?
Hence the consideration that this person lived in northern Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century with a personality and an uncommon knowledge could not pass unnoticed.
This is the cover of a book in which there are the woodcuts and the underlying moral of Brant.
For example, for the image of the Wheel of Fortune seen above,
Brant says:
honors and achievements are all human fragile and fleeting. Nothing is stable on the time of the fatal wheel of fortune and the glory socialite set, fall and fall kingdoms. Every earthly thing pon end in death. "
Brant is thus a witness of that tells us what it represented in the fifteenth century images very similar to the Tarot. Probably has never been considered for analysis because of the Tarot figured everything would become too trivial compared to the myth that was created, but the motion "nothing is by chance," perhaps because non è caduto questo mito alla fine ho scoperto lo schema.
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