The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards (1890)
Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs., 1848-1925 · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 104
o,written by Nicolas de Covellezzo, about the endof the thirteenth century, is preserved amongthe archives of Viterbo, and contains the earliestwritten account yet discovered of cards, not onlyamong the Italians but also in Europe, if we ex-cept the much disputed passage in the WardrobeRolls of… … Cards of Different Countries. 81 Italy was without question Trappola. This hadbeen introduced from Arabia, and is mentionedby many early Italian authors, one of whom writ-ing in 1393 calls cards Ndibi, and speaks con-temptuously of them as a childish game. Anotherwriter, Tenanza, declares that in…
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