The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 292
of Charles VII.,it is at least asserted—(1st), that playing-cards existed in India in thetwelfth century; (2nd), that the ancients played at games in which certainfigures and numbers were represented on dice or tablets; (3rd), that mcomparatively recent times the game of chess and the game of cards… … 224 PLAYING-CARDS. sufferings of hunger during a long and cruel famine, invented nearly everygame, especially that of dice. Later authors ascribe the honour of theseinventions to the Greeks, when irritated at the tedious delays of the siegeof Troy. Cicero even mentions by name Pyrrhus and Palamedes…
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