Academic overview of the origin of the Tarot, from the Arabic origin and first emergence in Italy in the fifteenth century to the evolution in a divinatory esoteric tool in eighteenth-century France. Mentioned along the process: the Visconti-Sforza deck, Tarot de Marseille, Book of Thoth, Éliphas Lévi, Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, A. E. Waite,