Antonio di Dino (Canacci), supplier of cards for silk dealers and Lapini family
composed by Lothar Teikemeier, last updated 06.12.2012
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First recorded activity for Silk dealers: 1439-09-11 Last recorded activity for Silk dealers: 1453-06-22 First recorded activity for Lapini family: 1453-01-01 Last recorded activity for Lapini family: 1454-02-08 |
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Sources
Sources are mainly taken from Franco Pratesi's new article series written from November 2011 till now, published here at Trionfi.com.| SOURCE 1: Silk dealer acquire decks |
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Quote from Franco Pratesi: "1431-1460: NAIBI ACQUIRED BY SILK-DEALERS", 20.04.2012 |
3.1 Antonio di DinoAntonio di Dino is usually mentioned as "fa i naibi", he produces naibi. This is a usual indication for the corresponding profession. In other cases, we find "dipintore" or painter, mentioned, but this is found more frequently for painters of boxes and cases, than of cards.  A particularly interesting trade is that of 13 October 1441: the cardmaker supplies a fine pack of naibi as part of a payment. This pack is of the finest quality made by him, as the four packs supplied a few months before; they are priced at 24s., higher than usual, but are naibi both Grandi and gilded. Probably, however, the most interesting indication for us about this special pack is its destination.       (a) There is a mistake in leaf numbering, with 29 present twice. |
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| SOURCE 2: Silk dealer sell decks |
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Quote from Franco Pratesi: "NAIBI SOLD BY SILK-DEALERS", 03.03.2012 |
List of Playing Card Sales 1439 - 1454
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| SOURCE 3: Lapini family sells decks |
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Quote from Franco Pratesi: "NAIBI TRADED AT LAPINI STORE, FROM 1415 ON", 10.04.2012 |
Naibi traded in 1453-1455In the second book examined, we find a different and more familiar situation, corresponding to the middle of the 15th century. This is easier to compare with other account books already studied. However, there is something unusual in this book, which is thicker than similar ones, with more than three hundred leaves. It seems that the trade changed in the time of these records, with increasingly more entries concerning production rather than small trades of the shop. I have collected in the following Table all the packs that I could see in the book; namely, in its initial part.
We can observe that low-quality packs still exist, but have rather become an exception among packs recorded here; only one dozen packs priced less than 2s. are present in the entries that I have seen in this store. Also at the other extreme we find a reduction of entries: the most expensive packs are a Naibi Doppi at 16s. and a Trionfi Grandi at 16s.6d. Other Naibi packs have prices in the middle range. |
| SOURCE 4: A single Trionfi card trade in the year 1452 |
The article "1452 – A DOZEN OF NAIBI DI TRIONFI" by Franco Pratesi, 02.04.2012, notes Antonio di Dino as the cardmaker of 12 Trionfi decks at July 29 1452, but it adds no personal information to him.
| SOURCE 5: A not readable card producer name in the Puri family sales list 1447 |
The article "1447-1449 - NAIBI ON SALE " by Franco Pratesi, 27.01.2012, notes "One maker (an.o di do.o?) I have not been able to read." It is suspected, that this addressed again Antonio di Dino (here as a cardmaker, who produced 4 decks for the price of 5.5 Soldi each at a single event).
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Repeated Note: When Ross Caldwell and me in 2003 started to collect Trionfi notes between 1442-1463, we had about 27/28 entries (which I nowadays would count as 31). The major part were the documents of Ferrara, which were collected by Gherardo Ortalli and Adriano Franceschini in the "Prince and the Playing Cards" (1996), after the base laying works of Michael Dummett and Stuart Kaplan around 1980. This collection included 2 notes about Trionfi cards in Florence, found by Franco Pratesi in his earlier work (allowances of the Trionfi game in 1450 and 1463). A graphical representation of this time (with 27 entries) shows the dominance of Ferrarese documents (in black) with a few notes only from other locations (in red; see picture to the right) In the period 2004 till October 2011 it was possible to add 4 further notes (Siena 1452, Padova 1455, Ancona c. 1460 and Valerio Marcello c. 1460), mainly thanks to information given by Thierry Depaulis. Franco Pratesi started his new article series in November 2011. Since then the list has gotten 67 new documents till September 2012 (65 of them found by Franco Pratesi, one, now the oldest of September 1440, by Thierry Depaulis, and another one by Veber Gulinelli, who controlled the earlier work of Franceschini and found an overlooked document) and nearly all are related to Florence or its surrounding. A small book (118 pages) was published around Christmas 2012, Franco Pratesi: "Playing Card Trade in 15th Century Florence" as IPCS Paper No. 7 (ISSN 0305-2133). It contains some of the articles, which before had appeared at this website, those, which treat the early time of 15th century. Thierry Depaulis commented in his foreword: "This book is a landmark in the history of early playing cards in Italy". Well, maybe not the book, but the research is clearly a landmark in various interests. For the collection of early Trionfi notes it somehow means, that we have within the year 2012 about 200 % more data for the period 1440-1462 than mankind had collected in the 200 years before. Added later: In August 2013 the new report of Arnold und Doris Esch: "Aus der Frühgeschichte der Spielkarte. Der Import von carte da giocare und trionfi nach Rom." in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 2013, 88. Jahrgang, p. 41-53, arrived in our redaction. It contains 106 new references to Trionfi decks, which all were found in the customs registers of the city Rome for the period 1453-1465. With this the number of all earlier Trionfi cards records has been doubled and should have reached then c. 210 (from which a few are only considered to be "Trionfi card notes" and don't contain the word "Trionfi" or something similar). *********** I'd started to sort the new Trionfi card documents overview in October 2012. Articles will be possibly changed according improvements in research. |
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