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Capitolo del gioco della primiera. Franceso BERNI
First Edition of the First Book Devoted to Card Games, with a Satirical Look at Primiera, The Venerable Ancestor of Poker.

Capitolo del gioco della primiera.

Rome: Minucio Calvo, 1526.
First edition. A remarkable book of firsts in card games and gambling. Francesco Berni, born in Tuscany in the village of Lamporecchio about 1497, was court secretary to Leo X and Clement VII, a world of "glittering literary productivity, where the lines between poet, cleric, and.....

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CAPITOLI Coi quali l'Ill[ustrissi]mi Congregazione DELL' OSPITALE DI SANTA MARIA DE' BASTARDINI...
On the Regulations of an Italian Orphanage's Farmland and Vineyards

CAPITOLI Coi quali l'Ill[ustrissi]mi Congregazione DELL' OSPITALE DI SANTA MARIA DE' BASTARDINI DI CARPI Intende di affitare a pubblico Incanto I beni Campagna di detto ospitale. RIFORMATI NELL' ANNO 1774. [Modena, s.n., 1774]

Modena: 1774.
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises essentially the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially.....

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