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    Jacobus de Cessolis (Italian: Jacopo da Cessole; c. 1250 – c. 1322) was an Italian author of the most famous morality book on chess in the Middle Ages...
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  • Dutch bishop Jacobus de Cessolis (c.1250–c.1322), Italian chess author Jacobus Petrus Duminy (1897–1980), South African academic Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout...
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    the Historyes of Troye, also by Caxton. It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. The book is an "allegory of fixed social structures where each rank...
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    nobles or the Book of Chess'), written by an Italian Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis c. 1300. This book was one of the most popular of the Middle Ages...
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    der Nachfolge des Jacobus de Cessolis, (Phil. F., Diss. v. 15. Dez. 1966), Heidelberg 1966 Das Schachzabelbuch des Jacobus de Cessolis, O. P. in mittelhochdeutscher...
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  • Cessolis, Jacobus de. Jacobus de Cessolis (c. 1250 – c. 1322) was an Italian Dominican friar whose sermons on morality were published as Liber de moribus...
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    of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess), written by Jacobus de Cessolis; and the works related to various chess problems, written largely...
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    to teach social and moral lessons by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis in his Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum...
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  • Carnevale Ludovico Carracci Lewis Carroll Fidel Castro Miguel de Cervantes Jacobus de Cessolis Wilt Chamberlain Charlie Chaplin Charlemagne Charles XII of...
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    Buke of the Howlat. The Buke of the Chess. A Scots translation of Jacobus de Cessolis' Latin Book of Chess, a series of essays on moral themes. The Porteous...
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