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| Decembrio, the secretary of Filippo Visconti, wrote at an unclear date the biography of Filippo Maria Visconti. The deciding passage about a card game, which had the proud price of 1500 ducatos, is translated by Michael Dummett in this way: "He was accustomed from his youth to play games of various kinds ... and particularly that type of game in which images are painted, which delighted him to such an extent that he paid 1500 gold pieces for a whole pack (ludum) of them, made in the first place by Marziano da Tortona, his secretary, who executed with the utmost diligence images of the gods, and placed under them with wonderful skill figures of animals and birds." The passage appears in chapter 61 of an Latin edition of Decembrio's text from the year 1781 (compare Title). Chapter 61 is on Page 15: De variis ludendis modis. We've prepared the complete text in an online-edition for further research of the person of Filippo Maria Visconti: The work of Decembrio is a main sources for his life. |
| Vita Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis Mediolanensium Ducis Tertii |