Dal Negro is an Italian company that produces playing cards, tarot cards, divination cards, chess, backgammon, roulette wheels, and toys for children.
The company has its registered office, from 2002, in
Carbonera in the
Treviso
Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...
area.
Its origins date back to 1756, as a factory of playing cards, owned by an Austrian situated in the city of Treviso. It was purchased in 1928 by Dal Negro family. For decades it had several locations in the town of Treviso, before arriving in the new location. In 2003, it bought rival Masenghini but has kept the brands separate. The following year, it acquired Milan-based NTP, which produces plastic playing cards.
In recent years the company has increased the production of Tarot decks, which also include a deck made by the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
.
In 2009 the company expanded its business by starting the production of wooden games for children, also obtaining the exclusive right to import Lego-compatible bricks produced by the Polish company Cobi, and importing Engino games from Cyprus. Equipped with solar panels, high-tech gears and levers.
Tarot by Dal Negro
*Tarot guess - I guess Tarot (1978), invented and illustrated by Sergio Ruffolo.
*Bizarre Tarot - Tarot Bizarre (1980), invented and illustrated by Franco Bruna.
*Tarot of the Stars - Tarot of the Stars (1991), invented and illustrated by Gio Tavaglione.
*Mitelli's Tarot - Tarocchini of Mitelli (1995), reprint of the original deck printed by
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli in the 1660s.
*
Visconti Tarots - Tarot Visconti (1997), reprint of the original deck painted by an artist anonymous 1460 approx.
*Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Tarot - Tarot of Shakespeare (1998), invented and illustrated by Louis Scarpini .
*Stained-glass windows Tarot - Tarot Stained Glass (1999), invented and illustrated by Louis and Julia Scarpini.
*Dario Fo's Tarot - Tarot Dario Fo (2002), invented and illustrated by Dario Fo and Dominique Gobbo.
*Lukumi Tarot - Tarot Lukumi (2003), invented by Coulter Emanuele Guidi, illustrated by Louis Scarpini.
*Bacchus Tarot - Tarot of Bacchus (2005), invented by Giordano Berti, illustrated by Louis and Julia Scarpini.
*Venice Tarot - Tarot of Venice (2007), invented by Giordano Berti, illustrated by David Tonato.
Regional cards produced by Dal Negro
Dal Negro produces 16 varieties of regional
Italian cards
Playing cards (in Italian: ''carte da gioco'') have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller independent states which led to the development of various regional patterns of playing ...
,
as well as cards from other countries in Europe.
* No. 20: Toscane (
Fiorentine)
* No. 24/D: Salisburghesi (
Salzburger)
* No. 25/S:
Jass
Jass ()David Parlett ''The Oxford guide to card games'', pg. 292-293, David Parlett (1990) is a family of trick taking, ace–ten card games and, in its key forms, a distinctive branch of the marriage family. It is popular in its native Switz ...
* No. 26 S:
Piquet
Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game. David Parlett calls it a "classic game of relatively great antiquity... still one of the most skill-rewarding card games for two" but ...
* No. 35:
Genovesi
Genovesi is a surname of Italian origin. It is the plural form of Genovese, stemming from old Italian usage of "dei Genovesi" as a family name, meaning "of the Genoveses". Notable people with this name include:
* Alessandro Genovesi (born 1973), ...
* No. 45/S: Milanesi (
Lombarde)
* No. 81:
Napoletane
* No. 89:
Bresciane
* No. 91:
Trentine
* No. 92:
Triestine
* No. 94:
Bergamasche
* No. 95:
Romagnole
* No. 99:
Sarde
* No. 114:
Trevisane
*
Piacentine
*
Piemontesi
*
Siciliane
Regional cards produced by Masenghini
* No. 21:
Cuccù
* No. 36:
Napoletane
* No. 54:
Toscane
References
External links
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1756 establishments in Italy
Playing card manufacturers
Toy companies of Italy
Italian brands
Tarot
Companies based in Veneto
Italian companies established in 1756
Manufacturing companies established in 1756