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| | Matteo Maria Boiardo: Tarocchi poem |
 | | From this it might be suspected, that Count Boiardo possibly invented this structure, which finally developed to be the standard representation of the Tarocchi- or Tarot-game. |
 | | Here we've the question, if Boiardo (in the case, that he really was the first, who used this scheme for a Trionfi deck), was influenced by Hebrew contemporaries to choose just the number 22 for his trumps. |
 | | We will begin with the grandfather, Feltrino Boiardo, who was a companion on Crusades to Niccolo I D'Este, then touch on influences to the growing MM Boiardo, and major events of his adult years, associated with Duke Borso and more extensively with the successor to the Ducal Crown, Ercole. |
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