![]() The “bassetta” was a card game, with a bank and three players, the “sbaraglino” is the ancestor of backgammon, “biribissi” and “real game” are similar to roulette, with players betting on the square of a table or a playing cloth and a draw. It is enough to remember the paintings of Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi today at the Venetian 18th century Museum of Ca’ Rezzonico or the works of Carlo Goldoni.Īmong the most common games of chance, besides cards and dice, there were the “biribissi”, the “bassetta”, the “sbaraglino”, the “royal game” and the “mea game”. In the past centuries, Venetian gamblers were very well represented and narrated in the “ridotti”, in the houses and squares. In 1638 it was the first city to open a public place to gamble, the famous “Ridotto” in San Moisè in Palazzo Dandolo, which was closed in 1774. ![]() Already in the 15th century it was one of the first manufacturers of playing cards with the opening of the first factory in 1391. Venice very quickly gained a reputation as a gambling capital.
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