Lot 277
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[Chess] Ponziani, Domenico Lorenzo
Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
suiluppato con nuovo metodo, per condurre chiunque colla maggiore facilita dai primi elementi fino alle finezze piu magistrali. Modena: eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, 1769. First edition, 4to, viii 383 [1] pp., later vellum, edges untrimmed, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, occasional spotting and staining [Lind, Das erste Jahrtausend der Schachlitteratur (850 - 1880), 2052]
Footnote
Ponziani, an ordained priest and a professor of law at the university of Modena, was a leading member of the 18th-century Modenese school of chess, whose style of play was characterised by ‘rapid development of the pieces followed by a swift attack on the enemy king' (Enqvist, Chess Lessons from a Champion Coach, 2003). He gives his name to the Ponziani opening.