Not far from one of Milan’s last remaining medieval gates is a tiny shop door, sandwiched between shuttered storefronts. Cross the threshold, and you’ll enter a gilded world of esoteric symbols: stars ...
In Italo Calvino’s 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies, two groups of travelers bed down for the night in a forest. One group heads for the castle. The other goes to a tavern. Under normal ...
Cards from the Sola Busca, the earliest extant example of a complete 78-card tarot deck, made in Italy in the late 1400s. public domain (8) Not far from one of Milan’s last remaining medieval gates is ...