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Royal tennis in renaissance Italy / Cees de Bondt.
Main entry:

Bondt, Cees de.

Title & Author:

Royal tennis in renaissance Italy / Cees de Bondt.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepolis, ©2006.

Description:

ix, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
Introduction -- The ball game of the ancients -- The birth of tennis -- The birth of the royal game of tennis -- The Court of the Estes in Ferrara (1400-1500) -- Antonio Scaino's book on tennis -- The Court of the Estes (1500-1700) -- The design of the tennis court -- The Gonzagas of Mantua -- The Medici of Florence -- Tennis in Papal Rome -- Tennis at other Italian courts -- Tennis courts used as theatres -- The image of tennis in art -- Appendix I : real tennis -- Appendix II : excerpts from Scaino's Trattato del giuoco della palla -- Appendix III : tennis courts at Italian palaces and Italian tennis court theatres.
ISBN:

2503522734
9782503522739

Subject:

Court tennis Italy History.
Tennis Italy History.
Renaissance Italy.
Tennis Italie Histoire.
Renaissance Italie.
Court tennis.
Renaissance.
Tennis.
Italy.
Italië.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251527
Call No.: GV1003 .B6 2006
Status: Available

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