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Pick a card! The Professor flies solo through the history of the Tarot, from fifteenth-century playing cards to mediations on the triumph of Our Lord. Why do people find card games so appealing? What does modern science have to do with fortune telling? And where is the deck is the brazen serpent lifted up?
Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck at the Morgan Library: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/tarot-cards