«Una pintura que se contiene en un pliego grande». El tablero de la Filosofía cortesana de Alonso de Barros: una Oca emblemática entre España e Italia (1587 y 1588).

Abstract

This article studies the illustrations of the game of Filosofía cortesana (Courtly philosophy) accompanying the 1587 Madrid edition. The existence of these images was not heretofore known, although a 1588 Venice edition has recently been discovered with a representation of the gameboard. The article includes a review of scholarship to date on this topic as well as a letter documenting familiarity with the Game of the Goose in the Spanish court in the years prior to the publication of the edition by Barros.