De ludo scachorum
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De ludo scachorum ('On the Game of Chess'), also known as Schifanoia ('the "Boredom Dodger"'),[1] is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance. Created in the times when rules of the game (especially the way queen and bishop move) were evolving to the ones known today, the manuscript contains over a hundred chess problems, to be solved – depending on the problem – using either the old or the modern rules.
De ludo scachorum (English: On the Game of Chess) | |
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Library of the Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia, Italy | |
Also known as | Schifanoia |
Date | c. 1500 |
Place of origin | Mantua, Duchy of Mantua |
Language(s) | Latin |
Author(s) | Luca Pacioli |
Illuminated by | Leonardo da Vinci (?) |
Dedicated to | Isabella d'Este Francesco II Gonzaga |
Size | Forty-eight pages |
Contents | Chess problems |
Discovered | 2006 |
The long-lost manuscript was rediscovered in 2006 and gathered public attention in 2008, following the plausible suggestion that the chess pieces in its illustrations were designed or perhaps even drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.[1]