[.ca] Dante Tarot (ISBN 0738701777)

An interesting art card set:
If you look up Dante Algheri using google.com, you can find translations and images through the Digital Dante projects. I've not come across anything else in this style other than Dali's paintings of Dante's cantos. Other artists such as Botticelli, Dore, Blake and others all reinterpreted Dante in different ways--so I find these images interesting and the cost quite reasonable. I look at these 78 images as a surrealistic walk inspired by Dante Algheri's collective works. This landscape of images might be nicely accompanied by the short biography of Dante by RWB Lewis. (Some people think the book is a good introduction to the Divine Comedy.) I actually cut the outside of the box to make two extra cards (cover and back) and also kept the side illustrations as bookmarks. The images on the front and back aren't duplicated in any of the cards. If you dislike surrealistic art or believe Dante's three books are too dark for your tastes, then this is not for you. If you like the images, you may find them as I do. Sometimes they are dreamlike, sometimes they are nightmarish---but they are archetypes in a symbolic landscape. You may like the internet reviews (Tarot Passages or Aecletic Tarot) and images, but not know about Dante Algheri--this might be an interesting starting point. I don't think of this as a standard tarot, but as art cards. They're a nice addition to my Dante Algheri and Italian literature collection.