Three of Swords (Minchiate Card Deck)

This printed playing card features a vertical arrangement of three blue swords with red hilts and yellow cross-guards, crossed behind a draped red ribbon. Two yellow, eight-pointed stars are placed symmetrically on either side of the swords. In the lower register, a brown wolf stands over a pale human infant, representing the Roman foundation myth of Romulus and Remus. The card is enclosed within a dotted, rectangular border, and the figures are set against a cream-colored background with a small patch of green ground beneath the wolf.

This card incorporates the foundational myth of Rome, specifically the nursing of Romulus and Remus by the she-wolf (Lupa Romana), into the Minchiate, a 16th-century Florentine expansion of the traditional Tarot deck used for both gaming and cartomancy.