Author Description

Introduction: playing the field / Allison Levy -- Performing pictures: parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood -- "Mixt" and matched: dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination: women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games: Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime: the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number": mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Wheels of fortune: the early modern lottery book as object and game / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick-taking in the Dutch republic: Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play: Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities: playing cards and geography in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion: Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista: chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas / Nhora Lucøa Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma: strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion