Re: Questions ...
Posted: 03 Mar 2019, 21:28
"De remediis utriusque fortunae"
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Pe ... tunae.djvu
... Kaplan's argument isn't valid, as the text also doesn't note the game of chess (a game, which isn't a game of luck, but a game of skill; the text is especially about fortune, not about games).
Cards might have been known by Petrarca, but possibly these early experiments weren't identified as "games of luck".
Petrarca had been in Prague and there are reports, that in Prague playing cards existed as early as 1340 ... it's insecure, if these reports are correct.
http://trionfi.com/0/p/95/
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Pe ... tunae.djvu
... Kaplan's argument isn't valid, as the text also doesn't note the game of chess (a game, which isn't a game of luck, but a game of skill; the text is especially about fortune, not about games).
Cards might have been known by Petrarca, but possibly these early experiments weren't identified as "games of luck".
Petrarca had been in Prague and there are reports, that in Prague playing cards existed as early as 1340 ... it's insecure, if these reports are correct.
http://trionfi.com/0/p/95/