Eighteenth-century lotteries
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The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader: Communities, Cultures and Play. ed. / Mark R. Johnson. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. p. 374-393.
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T1 - Eighteenth-century lotteries
AU - Fuchs, Mathias
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Lotteries have been the playground for big successes and immense losses for at least six centuries. Games of chance have a much longer history. People have been throwing the dice for millennia. In the fifteenth century, however, an Italian patrician transformed aleatoric selection processes for political candidates into a system for the monetization of gambling. The Genoese Benedetto Gentile cleverly appropriated the giuoco del seminario, a mechanism of choice of candidates for the ‘membri dei Serenissimi Collegi’ and restaged it as a lottery game for the public: giuoco del lotto. In each case – political election and aleatoric game for personal profit –the rule system was simply to pick 5 out of 90 available numbers. In the former case the chamber and the senate were selected, in the latter one the financial winners were determined by chance....
AB - Lotteries have been the playground for big successes and immense losses for at least six centuries. Games of chance have a much longer history. People have been throwing the dice for millennia. In the fifteenth century, however, an Italian patrician transformed aleatoric selection processes for political candidates into a system for the monetization of gambling. The Genoese Benedetto Gentile cleverly appropriated the giuoco del seminario, a mechanism of choice of candidates for the ‘membri dei Serenissimi Collegi’ and restaged it as a lottery game for the public: giuoco del lotto. In each case – political election and aleatoric game for personal profit –the rule system was simply to pick 5 out of 90 available numbers. In the former case the chamber and the senate were selected, in the latter one the financial winners were determined by chance....
KW - Media and communication studies
U2 - 10.5040/9781501347283.0029
DO - 10.5040/9781501347283.0029
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-5013-4725-2
SP - 374
EP - 393
BT - The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader
A2 - Johnson, Mark R.
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - New York
ER -