Fiorenza Tarot BY LONDA R. MARKS
ALCHEMIST PUBLISHING LLC ©2010 LONDA MARKS
FIORENZA TAROT® Designed By Londa Marks ©Copyright 2010 Published By Alchemist Publishing, LLC. Publishing Date: January 01, 2010 ISBN-13- 978-0-9819532-7-4 ISNB-10-0-9819532-7-1 Written & Designed By Londa Marks Credits & References: Wikipedia Artwork By Fabio Borbottoni (1820-1891) From a series of 120 oil paintings. Introduction Londa is a best selling tarot author and illustrator having been published by Lord of the Rings and A&E History Channel publisher U.S. Games Systems, Inc., and Alchemist PublishingTM, LLC. Londa has created Londa Tarot, Crow’s Magick Tarot, The Alchemist Tarot®, The Alchemist’s Spell Tarot®, Medici Tarot® and Fiorenza Tarot®. Londa is known for her unique original characters, dramatic design and brilliant coloration. During 2009 she became immersed in historic studies of Florence, Italy and the Renaissance period. All of which have greatly influenced her writing, product designs, illustrations and paintings. Her Magickally Enchanted® luxury products line has been inspired by Florence, Italy and the Renaissance period.
When you purchase from Alchemist Publishing,TM LLC., Londa Marks’ publishing house, you receive a completely artisan-crafted tarot deck from start to finish; giclee tarot cards designed and or illustrated by Londa Marks are suitably printed for fine art galleries and museums. Giclee is the next best thing to the actual painting. Colors are rich and detail is abundant and the giclee prints are archival quality. This makes for a purely magickal product delivered directly from the artist’s environment. Vibrations from the creator Londa Marks and her artisan son who lovingly finishes and prepares his mothers creations are evident beginning when you open the packaging they are sent in. Art and tarot collectors and those who prefer to purchase the finest magickal instruments will find this a sublime way to add to their inventory of magickal devices and oracles. Alchemist Publishing also prints a standard tarot deck, high gloss coated for daily use. Moreover, acquiring your tarot decks directly from the artist allows for a purely magickal tarot reading when using her tarot decks. After all, clients want pure magick when having a tarot reading from someone who uses a tarot deck for them. Isn’t that what tarot readers want when they do tarot readings? Isn’t pure magick, accurate spiritual guidance and answers what you want when you purchase a tarot deck or tarot reading? Of course. That’s the point of getting a tarot reading; to have unearthly and spiritually guided insight.
Artists who create tarot cards channel from otherworldly realms. And each tarot deck chosen by the artist to create is chosen because they deeply connect with that particular body of spirits. The other side to that is, possibly the artist doesn’t choose the work but the spirit of the work chooses the artist. Londa Marks’ love of Florence, Italy was stirred throughout history classes while growing up and attending St. Mary’s Catholic school as the nuns discussed and taught about Brunelleschi’s Duomo and other architectural wonders in Italy. Italian Art History, painting and drawing in art colleges that Londa attended fused her soul to Firenze, Italy and can be seen throughout all of her work. On January 1, 2009, the birthday of Lorenzo de` Medici, Il Magnifico, 560 years earlier, began a deeply spiritual connection to Firenze and Medici for Londa. Lorenzo, the patron of artists during the Renaissance, one of the most brilliant artists that ever lived, became Londa’s spiritual patron and artistic guide. During 2009 Medici Tarot was created. And, now Fiorenza Tarot®. The profound calling to develop the Medici Tarot® is outlined in Medici Tarot®. Londa, once again, incorporates the magick of Firenze into a magickal instrument. With Lorenzo’s position in Florence during
the Renaissance his focus was as leader yet he breathed much of his artistic soul into and through his chosen prodigies - except for his own poetry. With each work of a Renaissance artist we also see a bit of Lorenzo’s soul. After completing the Medici Tarot®, Londa found a need to keep building tarot cards and related products based upon what she was deriving from her studies and findings of Florence, Italy. Thus, the Fiorenza Tarot® was an appealing additional tribute. Artist Fabio Borbottoni Scenes from life or a desired life, can be found on tarot cards. As well they generally contain encrypted messages and directions all sent through the supranatural. Artists are influenced by many things during their life. These influences can be called: a muse. Florence, Italy is Londa Marks’ muse as it was Fabio Borbottoni’s. All art work, designs, writing and product development that she does is deeply embedded with bits of Florence’s soul and her love for its magickal world of art. Fabio Borbottoni lived from 1820-1902. He was an accountant for the railway and part time painter in Florence, Italy. Scene excerpts from his paintings are shown in the Fiorenza Tarot® deck and were painted by Fabio before Florence was changed and prepared for its brief position as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1865. Florence still held much of its medieval feel and look when