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Descriptive Information

Title

Lo splendore della nobilta napoletana

Description

This "guioco d'arme" is a game in which players roll dice to advance along a track, loosely modeled on the game of the goose. The book contains the rules, with the engraved gameboard folded within. The purpose of the game is to help young nobles learn the names and coats of arms of the Neapolitan nobility, the ruling families, and the ranks of the government and church. The "way to honor" has two paths, either secular, ending with the king, or religious, ending with the pope. There are traps along the way: if you land on "Gerusalemme," the player has to recite "Dio lo vuole" and go on a pilgrimage (i.e., lose a turn).

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

929.8 T635s

Authors

Torelli, Carlo

Full Title

Lo splendore della nobilta napoletana ascritta ne' cinque seggi: giuoco d'arme, esposto à somiglianza di quello, intitolato Le chemin de l'honneur da d. Carlo Torelli.

Date

1678

From the Exhibit

Building a Library: Genealogy and Heraldry

Publisher

Appresso Antonio Bulifon all'insegna della sirena

Location

Naples

Language

Italian

Rights

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Type

Text

Medium

Book

Bibliographic Citation

Torelli, Carlo. Lo splendore della nobilta napoletana ascritta ne’ cinque seggi. Naples: Appresso Antonio Bulifon all’insegna della sirena, 1678. Print.