Siena: Playing Card Notes
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1377 (2nd earliest entry in Italy): "Siena Stat. No. 42 (Iudex) f. 95, e No. 43, f. 45: 'Ludens ad
naibos puniatur sicut luderet ad zardum' 1377, VI Novembris".
(Ludovico Zdekauer, "Il Giuoco in Italia nei secoli XIII e XIV e
specialmente in Firenze" (Archivio Storico Italiano IV, XVIII (1886)
p. 64; rpt. in Zdekauer, "Il Gioco d'Azzardo nel Medioevo Italiano",
Salimbeni, Firenze, 1993 p. 61).
A statute of the city of Siena on 6 November 1377 states
that "Playing cards will be punished the same as if playing dice". (Note Ross Gregory Caldwell)
Schreiber (1937) doesn't note the entry of Siena (note autorbis).
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