Savoyen: Playing Card Notes
- "1430 - Amadeus VIII of Savoy forbids card playing (except to ladies
for pins 'spinolis')".
(from Robert Steele, "A Notice of the Ludus Triumphorum and some Early
Italian Card Games; with some Remarks on the Origins of the Game of
Cards", Archaeologia LVII, Series 2, Vol. III p. 196).
D'Allemagne gives a fuller version -
"In the 'Statuta Sabaudiae', (...) by Amadeus VIII, duke of
Savoy... "No one can ever play for money, unless it is to pay for
snacks or refreshments; as for cards, they are forbidden; however,
they are permitted to women and the men who play with them, as long
as they only play for pins or needles (des épingles ou des
aiguilles)". ["Les cartes à jouer", II, p. 437]
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Edict of duke Amadeus II. 1470: "... inter huiusmodi ludos sic duximus
distinguendom, quoniam ludus primae speciei: upote scaccorum, alearum,
pilae, paleti, billiarum, arcus,
balistus et similes in praesentia nostra fieri permittimus ,
dummodo nullum lucrum pecuniarum vel alterius cuiuscunque rei. Exceptis
dumtaxat comestibilibus et potabilibus
quae inter ludentes uno tantum pasti consumi valeant, interveniat.
Caetoros vero ludus sicut taxillorum, cartarum,
trinqueti et simili dolosos et ambitiosos quovis modo cum pecuniis et
sine pecuniis publice vel occulte per
quoscunque subditos nostros deinceps perpetue fieri vel eis uti
prohibemus ... Mulieribus tamenad recreationem, et viris
cum eis iocantibus LUDUM CARTARUM permittimus dummodo tantum fiat cum
spinolis."
Schreiber (p. 79) comments, that this rules are less strict than the
earlier (from 1430 ?). He refers to "Statuta Sabaudie", lib. III (printed
edition of Franciscus da Silva, Turin, 1505, p. 68)
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