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]
  
  
• 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)