TY - JOUR
TI - Geometry in a book of mathematical riddles from the beginning of the 16th century
AU - Palmarini, Luca
AU - Sosnowski, Roman
TI - Geometry in a book of mathematical riddles from the beginning of the 16th century
AB - 
	In this paper we present and analyse, from the linguistic point of view, the treatise Giuochi mathematici written by Piero di Niccolò d’Antonio da Filicaia. It is a very appealing witness of the history of the recreational mathematics from the beginning of the 16th century. After a brief introduction of Piero’s cultural background, we describe the structure of the treatise and its sources. We deal especially with the fourth part of Giuochi mathematici in which the author imitates the contents of Alberti’s Ludi matematici. Our analysis shows that textual reworking is quite deep although there is continuity as far as terminology and contents are concerned.

	*Articolo realizzato nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca 2016/21/B/HS2/00744 finanziato con i fondi del National Science Centre of Poland.
VL - Volume 19 (2019)
IS - Volume 19, Issue 1
PY - 2019
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 43
EP - 53
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.19.005.11695
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/geometria-in-un-trattato-di-giochi-matematici-dellinizio-del-cinquecento
KW - mathematical treatise
KW - geometric terminology
KW - Piero da Filicaia
KW - Giuliano di Lorenzo de’ Medici
KW - Ludi rerum mathematicarum