Incidentally, are you aware of the derivation of "spades" as the name of a suit in cards?

I have an Italian deck of cards, which we use to play Briscola. The Italian deck, like most other European decks, derives from the Tarot deck.

The suits are: Swords (spade, from which we get "spades"); Cups (coppe) which look like a chalice, and which are analagous to our "hearts"; Clubs (bastoni) which look like cudgels, or clubs; and Coins (dinari) which are analagous to our "diamonds". The 3-leaf clover which we call a "club" derives from French decks which used the fleur-de-lys instead of the stick but the name stuck in English in spite of the change in the picture.