The next two translations will feature poems about two different card games. I am going to post a translation of his second one first, because it is the easier of the two, both to translate and to read. It is a translation of "Firenze nel Settecento – Ottave sulla bassetta," posted May 3, ...

FROM PRECEDING POST 6. The games of bambara and buia Bambara was in turn a later variant of primiera, a game that was long appreciated in all European environments from the courts to the taverns, as long as the possibility of playing it lasted. By the eighteenth century, bambara had taken over, at l...

Here is another note of Franco's documenting types of card games played, this time in 18th and early 19th century Florence, in the aristocratic assemblage known as the Academy of the Immobile. Again there is the threefold classification of trick-taking games, betting games, and banking games. The do...

This post is devoted to a translation of Franco's note, "Firenze fine Ottocento – Conti di gioco," posted May 19, 2024 at https://www.naibi.net/A/ALESSANDRI.pdf. It is a study of wins and losses at various games, all studiously recorded by the player himself. The "Conti" of the t...

Franco has three more pieces on minchiate booklets, all posted on naibi.net in 2024. Since they are not Playing-Card articles, I put translations of them on the other current Pratesi thread, starting at viewtopic.php?p=26541#p26541, then the next two.

This post presents the final, at least for now, essay on 18th century books discussing how to play minchiate. It is the third one in this thread and the ninth overall since 2018, if the others translated at https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2737 are included. This one, in Germa...

This translation is of a second manuscript version of Minucci's Note, this one by Minucci himself, apparently a first draft of the printed version. On naibi.net, Franco puts the two side by side for comparison purposes. This forum does not have the software for such presentation, that I am aware of,...

I am now back, for the moment, to posting translations of notes first appearing on naibi.net. Although not articles in The Playing-Card , the next few (three so far) will be about more 18th-century booklets or manuscripts on how to play minchiate (following the six that he reviewed in the Playing-Ca...

Now the final Playing Card article since 2018 so far, again in a series on the rules of minchiate (including rules for playing well). This one is from the Oct.-Dec. 2023 issue of The Playing Card (52, number 2, pp. 12-19), originally "Regole Generali sopra il Gioco delle Minchiate," at htt...

Continuing with Franco's series of articles about early books about minchiate, next is one published in Rome of 1747, of which Franco summarizes and quotes the relevant part. It is actually a fairly helpful introduction to the game, I thought, including reasonably intelligible explanations of the te...