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Here are another couple of finds by Franco, still rummaging through the Biblioteca Moreniani. The first is an erudite mock defense of playing cards. The author would seem to be a high-ranking member of an "academy," more like a social club, in Florence, a "Very Reverend" ecclesi...

Recently (18.04.2024) added ..... https://naibi.net/A/NAIBBI.pdf ...... 8/08. Firenze 1420 e 1424. Naibi in vendita e naibi tristi (13.03.2024) https://naibi.net/A/UGHI.pdf ...... 8/09. Minchiate – Una copia manoscritta della nota di Paolo Minucci (14.03.2024) https://naibi.net/A/TRIOPETR.pdf ..... ...

Ross Sinclair Caldwell The Proto-historiography of Playing Cards: Early Hypotheses and Beliefs About the Origins of Cards and Card Games in Europe https://www.academia.edu/35372269/THE_PROTO_HISTORIOGRAPHY_OF_PLAYING_CARDS_EARLY_HYPOTHESES_AND_BELIEFS_ABOUT_THE_ORIGINS_OF_CARDS_AND_CARD_GAMES_IN_EUR...

In Work It seems, that the confusing composition of ... Content Impressum "A Versailles, de l'impprimerie de J.P. Jacob" [ I - VI ] Avant Propos [ VII - VIII ] Origine des Cartes A single picture at two pages https://books.google.de/books/content?id=CNAXu0q4aTcC&hl=de&pg=PP8&im...

The composition text (part 2) HISTOIRE DU JEU DE CARTES DU GRENADIER RICHARD ou EXPLICATION DU JEU DE 52 CARTES 1811 https://books.google.co.uk/books?as_brr=3&id=DSMCAAAAYAAJ&q=1811#v=onepage&q=1811&f=false https://books.google.de/books/content?id=CNAXu0q4aTcC&hl=de&pg=PP9&am...

Thanks, that's fine. Page 24 reports about the later life and the death of Louis Bras-de-Fer. So one possibly might suspect, that the reported story happened possibly 1750 or earlier. Louis Bras-de-Fer is (if everything is a true story) the heroic author of the ideas in the article, but not the auth...

The 1778 version is (author is Louis Bras-de-Fer) ... Explication morale du jeu de cartes: anecdote curieuse et intéressante, sous le nom de Louis Bras-de-Fer, engagé au service du roi 1778 - 24 pages https://books.google.de/books?id=DSMCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&am...

I got a question about "story of a soldier in a church reading the playing cards as a book of devotion, associating each card with some religious personages or events" .... I remember a legend with a real "first source" (? I remember late 18th century , somehow connected to milit...

Dummett and the Game of Tarot 2013
by Carlo Penco
2013, Teorema, XXXII/1
16 Pages
1 File ▾
https://www.academia.edu/2442994/Dummet ... Tarot_2013

We had this earlier .... here is a wiki article about Carlo Penco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Penco