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Pietro Carrera

(Carrera, Pietro, 1571-1647)

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• Carrera, Pietro, 1571-1647: Il gioco de gli scacchi : diviso in otto libri, ne' quali s'insegnano i precetti, le uscite, e i tratti posticci del gioco, e si discorre della vera origine di esso : con due discorsi, l'uno del Padre D. Gio. Battista Cherubino, l'altro del Dottor Mario Tortelli : opera non meno utile à professori del gioco, che diletteuole à gli studiosi per la varietà della eruditione cavata dalle tenebre dell'antichità : all'Illustriss. & Eccel. Sig. D. Francesco Branciforte, Principe di Pietrapertia, e Marchese di Militello (Per G. de' Rossi da Trento, 1617) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carrera, Pietro, 1571-1647: La vinuta di lu re Iapicu in Catania. (M. Galati, 1898), also by Vincenzo de Gaetano and brother Atanasio do Jaci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carrera, Pietro, 1571-1647: A treatise on the game of chess. Containing games of odds, various openings of even games, different methods of winning and drawing the game. Also, numerous critical situations on diagrams. To which are added, the art of playing without seeing the board, and an account of the most celebrated chess players of his time. First published in 1617, by D. Pietro Carrera. Tr. from the Italian, with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis. (J. M. Richardson, and R. Triphook, 1822), also by William Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

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