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GORIZIA, Italy, Dec 29, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A study of the game of chess by Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli has been discovered in northern Italy after it was feared lost.
The 48-page manuscript, complete with detailed illustrations, was found by Italian book expert Duilio Contin in a library in the Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, ANSA reported Friday. Contin made the discovery while looking through the literary possessions of the last count of Coronini, Guglielmo. Guglielmo died in 1990 and acquired the manuscripts in 1963.
Scholars knew of the manuscript's existence when it was cited in other works, but the document itself was believed to have been permanently lost.
The manuscript, which experts have already confirmed was written by Pacioli, explains the rules and strategies of chess and features several highly detailed drawings, the news service reported.
In addition to being one of Leonardo da Vinci's tutors, Pacioli, born in 1445, is considered the father of modern accounting.
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