Anonymous: Partenio Etivo is a pseudonym of Pietro Aretino. (WorldCat).

First published with title: Dialogo di Partenio Etiro nel quale si parla del gioco con moralità piacevole; also issued as the second dialogue of the third part of his Ragionamenti (BN).

Signatures: [sec.]⁴A-S⁸T⁴ (T4 blank).

Title page bears woodcut device; head- and tail-piece, woodcut initials.

Work in which 'talking cards' (the greater trumps) are allegorical figures who debate with Padovano, a monk, on the subject of gaming, and the manipulation of money and credit.

Gambling > Religious aspects > Early works to 1800.

Gambling > Religious aspects