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As the title Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo autore Modenese suggests, he was pretending to be an anonymous Modenese author.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Imagination Breeds Creativity Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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As the title Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo autore Modenese suggests, he was pretending to be an anonymous Modenese author.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Imagination Breeds Creativity Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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(_Volgarizzamento del libro de 'Costumi e degli offizii de' nobili sopra il giuoco degli Scachi_, Milan, 1829) and reprinted in _Libro di Novelle
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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In Il giuoco delle parti (19191) [The Rules of the Game] Pirandello creates a drama of pure abstractions: he uses the artificial notions of duty to which members of society can be subjected by the force of tradition with resolute logic for an action completely contrary to expectation.
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This is a waste space of grass and a few trees, and here the children play, and here, recently, a football ground -- or campo di giuoco -- has been laid out, with a galvanized iron and pitch-pine shed called splendidly the Tribuna.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
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Questo e un giuoco che imparai qui, quando verro a casa, ve l'imparero.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864
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I went back to chess for a distraction till the fate of that book was pronounced or sealed -- it was always chess in the hours of my distress and anxiety -- and I once again faced Charles Kenny, and once again wondered if he knew, and how much he knew, whilst he was deep in his king's gambit or his giuoco-piano; but he was not even aware that I had sent in a second story, I learned afterwards.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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Romping, struggling, throwing things at one another’s head, are the becoming pleasantries of the mob, but degrade a gentleman: giuoco di mano, giuoco di villano, is a very true saying, among the few true sayings of the
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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'giuoco di mano, giuoco di villano', is a very true saying, among the few true sayings of the Italians.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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'giuoco di mano, giuoco di villano', is a very true saying, among the few true sayings of the Italians.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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