40 cards.
Note the jack of clubs. on his chest is the arms of - the house of visconte* a serpent busy swallowing a man...
This pattern also comes in a form with indexes ( the court cards bear their titles in italian, spelled vertically on the corners, and the pips have indexes like those on normal playing cards), called the " lombarde estro"( see http://anthonylesq.blogspot.com/2012/05/milaneselombardy-pattern-ag-muller.html)
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione
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