POPULAR CULTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

RECREATION--GAMES


Basic games
  • Card playing

A mania for all classes.  Leo X was an addict (Durant 595)
  • Checkers
  • Chess
  • Dice (Gies 260)
  • Nine Men's Morris (Singman 98)

Gambling

Outdoor Games
  • Blind man's bluff
  • Bowling
  • Prisoner's base (Gies 260)

Parlor Games
  • "The King Who Does Not Lie"
  • "St.-Cose " (Gies 260)



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Robin 
Medeiros

 Popular Culture 
in the
Renaissance

Prismatic Perception