Huck wrote:Franco Pratesi has found a few notes about playing cards for Italy earlier than 1377 ...
Carte da gioco in Europa prima del 1377 ? – Italia
http://www.naibi.net/A/510-PRE1377ITA-Z.pdf
Portovenere 1370
Buia 1371
Colle del Marchese 1371
Norcia 1257-1526
Casorzo 1375
Franco Pratesi gave the comment to my description (private communication):
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actually, I did not discover any new document !! I have only analysed critically some existing references, which ALL appear not to be reliable enough. (Evidently, when you see a note of mine, you suppose – and this may be pleasant for me to read - that I discovered something new, but this was not the case.)
The references are:
Portovenere 1370 ... E. Pandiani (A cura di), Gli statuti di Portovenere, anno 1370. Genova 1901
Buia 1371 ... V. Joppi (A cura di), Il castello di Buja ed i suoi statuti. Udine 1877.
Colle del Marchese 1371 ... G. Guerrini, M. Sensi (A cura di), Tre comuni rurali e i loro statuti: Colle del Marchese,
Castel San Giovanni, Castel Ritaldi. Perugia 1985.
Norcia 1257-1526 ...
* Liber primus [-sextus] Statutorum Nursie. Perugia 1526
* F. Pratesi, The Playing-Card, 17 No. 1 (1988) 23-33.
* R. Cordella (A cura di), Statuti di Norcia: testo volgare a stampa del 1526 / edizione
critica . Perugia 2011.
Casorzo 1375
N. Caturegli (A cura di), Statuta et ordinamenta communis hominum Casurcii. Pisa,
1929.
... :-) ... well, I wrote "notes", not "documents". Actually it's also work to find such earlier statements. I personally wasn't aware of the given quotes.
From the perspective of the also insecure early notes of Hübsch (playing cards in early Bohemia) it's interesting, that these Italian notes follow the 3rd journey of emperor Charles IV to Italy in 1368/69 ... similar as the Bern prohibition in 1367 followed a stay of Charles IV in Bern in 1365 during his travel to the kingdom of Arles.
Porto Venere (Liguria, note in 1370, the earliest) has about 90 km distance to Lucca, where Charles IV spend most of his time during this journey.
