Original title: Repetición de amores y arte de ajedrez
Luis Ramírez de Lucena's work, published in 1497, brings together two worlds of the early Renaissance: a literary discourse on love and the art of chess. Its first part addresses emotion, virtue, fame and the relationships between lovers. Letters, dialogues and the author's reflections form an independent work essential to understanding the design of the book as a whole.
The chess section introduces rules, opening instruction and a collection of 150 problems. It belongs to a period when the new powers of the queen and bishop were transforming play, while the medieval inheritance continued alongside new techniques. Ideas familiar to today's reader therefore appear beside unfamiliar conditions and historical methods of explanation.
This volume reveals the formation of the chess book before the familiar separation into opening manual, problem collection and literary work. It can be read in sequence or studied position by position at the board. Particularly rewarding is the comparison between the author's reasoning and modern approaches: how a problem is posed, which possibilities Lucena notices and what he regards as a convincing solution.
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