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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 14 July 2026
- ISBN 9789463723749
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 113 Illustrations, color; 113 Halftones, color 700
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Short description:
This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
MoreLong description:
This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one founded not only on iterative performances but also through a visual and material culture imbricated in early modern Italy’s ideologically inflected artistic, scientific, and social systems.
As this book demonstrates, the materia of play took part in shaping the imaginary of the Cinquecento and its roots in the Quattrocento within a network of interwoven courts, intellectual circles, and civic centers situated on the Italian peninsula. For makers, players, viewers, and patrons, for lords, professional athletes, and gambling workmen, the visual culture of games – the art of play – stood at the very center of the world we have long known as the Renaissance.
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy above all focuses on how the material and visual cultures of games shaped their performance and practice and, crucially, our knowledge of the past. The structure of this book echoes infamous gambler and polymath Cardano’s categorization of games as Games of Wit (including both skill and mixed skill and chance), Games of Fortune (including both chance and Terence’s fate), and Games of Vigor (including athletics of agility and strength). This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
MoreTable of Contents:
1 What Were Renaissance Games?
Game Theories in the Renaissance
Recovering Renaissance Play
Structuring the Art of Play
2 Games of Wit
The Materials of Play
Moves and Maneuvers
Embedded Meanings
Self-Fashioning
Games, Pictures, and Wit
3 Games of Fortune
Cards at Play
Fortune at Play
The (Board) Game of Life
Pay to Play: Labor and Liberalità
4 Games of Vigor
The Athletic Arts between Antique Imagination and Renaissance Practice
Alfonso II and the Princely Athlete
Sport and Spectacle in Medici Florence
