Middle Ages history of tarot readings
A tarot reader in Florida is one of the most recent participants in the tarot tradition that reaches back hundreds of years. There are reliable references in the Middle Ages to the appearance of tarot reading as we know it today. Marsilo Ficino (died 1499 was a Florentine academic who, with Cosimo de Medici, translated some copies of very ancient Greek writings. Part of this project included to translate important Greek Hermetic works, including what was known as the Corpus Hermeticum. The Corpus was, in its turn, a collection of writings and traditions of a religious cult that seemed to combine some elements of the worship of the mythical Greek Hermes Trismegistus and the Egyptian god, Thoth. Sounds like a long way from Florida, but the traditions and the help that some tarot readers can give to visitors, is alive.