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Lotterie, lotto, slot machines
L’azzardo del sorteggio: storia dei giochi di fortuna
Lotteries, lotto, slot machines.
The luck of the draw: a history of games of chance
edited by Gherardo Ortalli
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Viella
Treviso-Rome 2019
44 pages
12 euros
ISBN 978-88-3313-161-0
(Ludica, 13)
Some anniversaries deserve to be celebrated. So it seemed apt that thirty years of sustained commitment by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche to studies in ludicity and the history of games and gaming should occasion a significant mark of recognition. We decided that this should take the form of a carefully planned exhibition that would convey the importance of the subject, focussing in particular on games of chance, given that gambling has always been the most noteworthy aspect of ludicity because of the many risks associated with its financial implications. We set out too to make the survey serious, clear and accessible, with coverage that brought it right up to the present day. All these features are reflected in this partial catalogue, which stands with the exhibition as a testimony to three decades of dedicated research, published since 1995 in the house journal Ludica.
The contents of this publication correspond to those of the monographic section of the journal Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco, 24, 2018 (pp. 111-144).
Contents
Gherardo Ortalli, Premessa/Introduction
Gherardo Ortalli, I presupposti di una mostra
Alle origini del moderno gioco d’azzardo
I “falò delle vanità” e la stagione
del moderno gioco d’azzardo
Si scommette su tutto
Il gioco del lotto
Regole del biribissi
Alberto Fiorin, Glossario dei giochi più trattati
Gherardo Ortalli, The premises underlying the exhibition
The origins of modern gambling
Bonfires of the vanities and the age of modern gambling
Betting on everything
The game of lotto
Rules of Biribissi
Alberto Fiorin, Glossary of games most often mentioned