Archeologia del gioco degli scacchi nel medioevo occidentale. Nuovi manufatti in Italia
The game of chess is one of the many Islamic contributions to Western European culture and its
introduction in Western Medieval courts exalts its social and intellectual level. The standardisation of
the rules by Alfonso X of Castile and, previously, the De ludo Scachorum by Jacopo da Cessole
favoured the spreading of chess as an aristocratic game. Compared to the number of treatises and
literary texts where the chessboard is interpreted as a metaphor of the social space and its regulations,