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Published with Morgan Library & Museum. This major new volume explores the origins of tarot in Renaissance Italy and its contemporary relevance as an enduring source of inspiration for modern artists. This beautiful book looks explores and reveals how tarot has developed, evolved, and been reimagined by artists, mystics, and writers over the centuries, from its origins as a fifteenth-century card game in Renaissance Italy to its profound transformations into tools for divination, artistic creation, and storytelling. This new volume fills a very real – and timely – gap in the currently available published material on the history and artistic development of tarot, its symbolism, and its source of inspiration for contemporary artists.