Sola Busca Tarot – 78-Card Museum Quality Renaissance Tarot Deck in Rigid Box | Lo Scarabeo

Sola Busca Tarot – The Tarot Masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance

One of the most significant tarot decks in history, the Sola Busca Tarot is the only known complete tarot deck from the Renaissance period — originally produced in northern Italy circa 1491 — and the first known fully illustrated tarot deck, predating the Rider-Waite-Smith system by more than four centuries. This Museum Quality edition is produced by Lo Scarabeo as an officially licensed product of the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, faithfully reproducing every card from the original engravings held in the museum’s permanent collection.

• 78 cards — the complete tarot; all 22 Major Arcana and 56 fully illustrated Minor Arcana
• Card size: 12 × 7 cm — a large, beautifully readable format for all spread styles
• Printed on 350gsm double-embossed cardstock — premium weight and fine tactile finish
• Faithful reproduction of the original 15th-century Renaissance engravings, hand-coloured in period style: Roman soldiers, mythological figures, classical urns and weapons populate every card
• Named court cards throughout — including Matanabo (Knight of Coins), Polisena (Queen of Coins), and many more — each carrying the weight of a classical identity
• Unique suit of Coins rendered as Roman portrait medallions: the 2 of Coins features two laurel-wreathed profiles in ouroboros-bordered roundels
• Striking rose-pink holographic glitter card backs — a bold modern contrast to the ancient imagery, reversible
• Presented in a matte black rigid box with crimson baroque scrollwork, the Lo Scarabeo beetle seal, and the Pinacoteca di Brera museum licence mark
• An essential collector’s piece and a profound historical document of the tarot tradition

The Sola Busca is not merely a deck — it is an artefact. Its figures — armoured soldiers bearing obscure classical names, grotesque bearded faces crushed beneath towers of coins, knights astride horses in the heat of ancient battle — speak in a language older than the tarot’s more familiar symbols. To read with the Sola Busca is to enter a dialogue with the Renaissance itself.