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28. D. Souter, Palamedes sive De tabula lusoria, alea et variis ludis libri tres (Leiden:
Elzevir, 1622 and 1625; preceded by Ioannes Meursius, Graecia ludibunda sive
De ludis Graecorum liber singularis). Cf. Ioannes Meursius, Orchestra sive De
saltationibus veterum (Leiden, 1618). In his preface to the reader of Graecia
ludibunda (unfol.), the author mentions his dance book and refers to his two
volumes as a joint project, which aims at a comprehensive exploration of
Greek pastimes (oblectamenta).
29. On Lenaert Leys (Leonardus Lessius): T. van Houdt, ‘Spelen om geld’, De
zeventiende eeuw, 15.1 (1999) 61–73. On English and Dutch Protestant theologians
(Voetius, Taffin, Gataker, Perkins and Ames): L. F. Groenendijk,
‘Kansspelen in het ethische discours van gereformeerde theologen in de
Noordelijke Nederlanden’, De zeventiende eeuw, 15.1 (1999) 74–85.
30. Peter Martyr, The Common Places, trans. by A. Marten (London, 1583), pp.
503–5 (‘Of danses’), 524–8 (‘Of plaies or pastimes’); A briefe treatise, concerning
the use and abuse of dauncing, trans. by I. K. (London: J. Jugge, [1580]).
While the origin of both of these texts was a Latin commentary on the Book
of Judges (first published in Zurich in 1561), the editor of the collection of
Peter Martyr’s commonplaces gave them systematic arrangement, and by so
doing oriented the reader’s approach to them. Dance was put under the
seventh commandment, as related to sexual promiscuity and transgression;
play under the eighth, thus equating it with gambling and theft.
31. Augustine, De vera religione, 38; Bede, Expositio in Primam Epistolam S. Joannis.
32. S. D’Agata D’Ottavi, ‘The quaestiones disputatae: an aspect of medieval
theatre’, European Medieval Drama, I (1997) 101–8.
33. Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, vol. 44, pp. 200–9.
34. St Antoninus, Summa theologica, ed. by P. Ballerini (Verona, 1740; repr. Graz,
1959), vol. 2, cols 491–4. Cf. Arcangeli, ‘The confessor and the theatre’.
35. Caietanus, Summula (Venice: D. Nicolinus, 1584), s.v. ‘histrionum peccata’,
‘ludere’, ‘spectacula’; his commentary is included in St Thomas Aquinas,
Opera omnia, Leonina edn, vol. X (Rome, 1899), pp. 345–8. Cf. Arcangeli,
‘The confessor and the theatre’, pp. 24–5.
36. Otten, ‘De Urbanitate’.
37. Olson, Literature as Recreation, p. 64. Cf. W. Tatarkiewicz, ‘Theatrica, the
science of entertainment from the XIIth to the XVIIth century’, Journal of
the History of Ideas, XXVI (1965) 263–72; P. Vallin, ‘Mechanica et Philosophia
selon Hugues de Saint-Victor’, Revue d’Histoire de la Spiritualité, 49 (1973)
257–88; C. Casagrande and S. Vecchio, ‘Clercs et jongleurs dans la société
médiévale (XII e et XIII e siècles)’, Annales. Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 34
(1979) 913–28.
38. Phillips, The Theatre and Its Critics.
39. J.A. Gonzalez Alcantud, Tractatus ludorum: una antropológica del juego
(Barcelona: Anthropos, 1993).
40. P. de Covarrubias, Remedio de jugadores (Burgos: A. de Melgar, 1519); Rimedio
de’ giuocatori, Italian trans. by A. Ulloa (Venice: V. Valgrisi, 1561). Cf.
Gonzalez Alcantud, Tractatus ludorum, pp. 115–20. On bullfighting, see A.
Molinié-Bertrand, J.-P. Duviols and A. Guillaume-Alonso (eds), Des taureaux
et des hommes. Tauromachie et société dans le monde ibérique et ibéro-américain.
Actes du colloque international (Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne,
1999); for an anthropological enquiry on the ritual, with comparisons with