Michael S Howard

My blogs

• Alain Bougearel's "tarot arithmologique du nombre pentagonal 22 = 1+4+7+10"
• Etteilla's Trumps as Interpreted by him and his followers: pictures, translations, commentary
• Etteilla's Angelology
• Cartomancy in 18th century Bologna
• The Mother Letters and the Sefer Yetzirah’s Cube of Space, from Saadia to the Tree of Life
• Tarot & Kabbalah in the 15th & early 16th Centuries
• The Card Games in Aretino's Carte Parlanti
• Binary Patterns in Games and Divination Tools
• The Astral Journey of the Soul
• Depaulis's "Tarot in France before 1500: translation and discussion
• Decker's "The Esoteric Tarot": Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermetism and Cabala
• Essays by Michael S. Howard
• Dali's illustrations to Montaigne
• Etteilla and Variants Timeline III, with Links
• Michael Dummett's "Il Mondo e l'Angelo": translations and commentary
• Ambrogio vs. Bonifacio Bembo
• Moakley's 1966 "The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo", text and updating
• Errors in post-1927 editions of Wirth's "Imagiers"
• Etteilla's Third Cahier and Supplements: Translation & Commentary
• Two blogs: Dionysus in the Tarot, Alchemy in the Tarot
• The Popess of the Tarot and the Double Life of Guglielma
• New Material on the Sola-Busca Tarot
• The Stag on an early Temperance Card
• Mom the Artist
• Blog for people who have trouble joining Tarot History Forum
• Mom the Artist, Part Two
• The Theology of Romeo and Juliet
• Cupid & Psyche, a tale told in art and alchemy
• Essays on Gnostics, one on Cathars
• William Blake's Spiritual Journey
• Using Romeo and Juliet in a Mental Health Setting
• The Hermetic Hamlet Slide Show
• The Tarot Trumps, Some History, from Christian Beginnings to the Esotericists and C. G. Jung
• The Theology of King Lear
• 22 Invocations of Dionysus: The Esoteric Tarot Before 1781
• The divine feminine in Shakespeare's Pericles
• The Esches on playing card imports to Rome to 1480
• Egypt in the tarot: Paul Christian & Co.
• The "Song of the Virtues and Sciences" for Bruzio Visconti
• Translations of Franco Pratesi tarot writings originally in Italian
• Jewish-Christian interactions in Italy before 1500
• Latimer's "Sermons on the Cards": a game of triumphs in which all the players can win
• The Bologna Cartomancy Sheet Compared with Etteilla
• Tarot and the Chaldean Oracles
• Neopythagoreanis... in the Tarot: Sola-Busca, Etteilla, Waite
• Minchiate Variations
• A Few Images
• A Bolognese Origin for the "Tarot of Mantegna"?
• From Marziano to the Ludus Triumphorum
• Ross's chart
• The Rothschild Cards and Giovanni dal Ponte
• Tarot Cards as Renaissance Hieroglyphs
• Giotto's "Virtues and Vices" and Petrarch's "Triumphi" as starting points for the historical tarot
• Pico's Influence on Boiardo's Tarot Poem
• Etteilla's "Temple of Fire" in Memphis
• Trionfi manuscripts and tarot production: is there a correlation?
• Sapelo Island Photos
• The Bolognese Order of Triumphs
• An Empress in Palermo for the "Alessandro Sforza" tarot
• Palingenio's "Zodiacus Vita", 1535 Venice
• Michelino to Cary/Yale to PMB
• "Early minchiate pattern" between Bologna and Florence
• Platonism and the Tarot: From Renaissance Milan to 18th Century France
• Cartomancy from Lot-Books to Etteilla

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