Here is the second in a series of short commentaries on various extant 18th-19th-century booklets on how to play minchiate, this one on a lazy Italian translation of a booklet in German by someone who didn't fully understand Italian or, consequently, the game. The original is "Commenti sul Rego...

I am starting a new thread for Franco's articles in The Playing-Card , the journal of the International Playing Card Society. Partly this is because I have a different start-date, 2018 rather than 2023, with which the other thread of recent translations starts, that at https://forum.tarothistory.com...

And "Atlante" is Italian for "atlas." The article is about a pack of geographical cards, with maps and information about various places. Corsica is simply one of the places, nothing about playing cards there. I will be posting a translation of that article soon, on another Prates...

I think it would be useful, Huck, if you extended what you have done by providing a list of essays, translated into English, with links, of Franco's entires that currently are in Italian or French only. I have done translations of most of his entries from Oct. 12, 2015 on (exceptions I see at the mo...

This is the sequel to "Cards and tarot cards in Sassari at the beginning of the nineteenth century," the translation of Franco's note posted immediately before this one in this thread. The present note was originally entitled "Carte e tarocchi alla fine del Settecento in Sardegna,&quo...

With this note and another note to follow, we move to the Kingdom of Sardinia in the early years of the 19th century. The original title is "Carte e tarocchi a Sassari all’inizio dell’Ottocento," posted at https://www.naibi.net/A/TASASSA.pdf on Aug. 2, 2023 - so I am going back and picking...

Here is another note, translated from "Firenze circa 1720. Minchiate e cavalieri senza cavalleria," https://www.naibi.net/A/CAVAL.pdf, this time about a game of minchiate in which tempers and objects fly, among so-called nobles. Again, numbers in the left margin are the page numbers of Fan...

I left out one of the inventory studies from March, which I present now. The original is "Firenze 1420 e 1424. Naibi in vendita e naibi triste," at https://naibi.net/A/NAIBBI.pdf, dated March 13, 2024. Again, words in brackets are mine, mainly for explanatory purposes, after consulting wit...

This is my supplement to the previous post, which gave a translation of Franco's note on another educational minchiate, this one from 1748-1750. I wanted to look as closely as I could at the Munich booklet Franco links to (dated by them at 1750), to see if there was anything anybody missed about the...

The find now is a new kind of minchiate, or at least that is the claim. It is in the same vein as the ancient history minchiate of a previous note. The original, "1748 – Minchiate incomplete di un pastore arcade," is dated May 1, 2024, and is at https://www.naibi.net/A/ARCADE.pdf. The &quo...