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 The first [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] was commissioned by the duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, painted by Michelino da Besozzo and described in an accompanying text by Martiano da Tortona. The deck itself is lost, but Marcello provided a copy of da Tortona's description which offers details about the deck and a cursory explanation of how it is played.
-It likely had a total of 60 cards (four kings, forty pip cards and sixteen trumps). The forty-four plain-suited cards used birds as suit signs and the trumps presented sixteen Roman or Greek gods: Jove, Juno, Pallas, Venus, Apollo, Neptune, Diana, Bacchus, Mercury, Mars, Vesta the Virgin, Ceres, Hercules, Aeolus, Daphne, and Cupid).
+It likely had a total of 60 cards (four kings, forty pip cards and sixteen trumps). The forty-four plain-suited cards used birds as suit signs and the trumps presented sixteen Roman or Greek gods:
+* Jove
+* Juno
+* Pallas
+* [[Venus]]
+* Apollo
+* [[Neptune]]
+* Diana
+* Bacchus
+* [[Mercury]]
+* [[Mars]]
+* Vesta the Virgin
+* Ceres
+* Hercules
+* Aeolus
+* Daphne
+* Cupid
 In two suits, the pip cards are in reverse order as in many of the oldest card games. Each trump card is associated with a suit in alternating descending order of Eagle, Phoenix, Turtledove, Dove. For example, Jove, Apollo, Mercury, and Hercules are associated with the suit of Eagles.