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--- cards:second_deal [2017/08/01 09:57] – link updated denisbehr
+++ cards:second_deal [2022/11/21 23:31] (current) – Deleated the "Opera Nuova" citation (an error) and added the "I segreti" citation. stephenminch
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 ====== Second Deal ======
-Bill Kalush points to what may be the first published mention of this sleight in "a well-preserved pamphlet of four leaves entitled //Opera nuoua doue facilmente potrai imparare piu giuochi di mano et altn giuochi piaceuolissimi & gentili come si potra leggefnjdo uedere et facilmente imparare. //[G. S. di Carlo da Pavia: Florence, 1520?]."
+Although used for centuries by card cheats, descriptions of the Second Deal managed to stay out of conjuring texts for a remarkably long time. The first published mention of the sleight may be in Horatio Galasso's //Giochi di carte bellissimi di regola e di memoria//, 1593, pp. [[https://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci%C3%A8re+Vol+2+Issue+2/83|83]] & [[https://askalexander.org/display/13226/Gibeci%C3%A8re+Vol+2+Issue+2/89|89]] of the Pieper translation in //Gibecière//, Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 2007. Galasso calls the sleight a //retengo//, which translates as "hold back". He describes the use of the sleight, but gives no details on its execution. It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the move was given a detailed explanation in print:
-Although being around for centuries, descriptions of the technique managed to stay out of conjuring texts for a remarkably long time. It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the move blossomed into print with detailed explanations. The strike second deal appeared in Gabriel Mailhol's //Le Philosophe Négre et Les Secrets Des Grecs//, 1764, p. 165, but stayed out of English texts for another eighty years until Johnathan Harrington Green's description in //An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling//, 1843, p. 31. The push-off second deal was described eighteen years later in Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/243|Les Tricheries des Grecs Devoilees]]//, 1861, p. 169 of the Hoffmann translation.
+The Strike Second Deal appeared in Gabriel Mailhol's //Le Philosophe Négre et Les Secrets Des Grecs//, 1764, p. 80, but stayed out of English texts for another eighty years until Johnathan Harrington Green's description in //An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling//, 1843, p. 31.
+The Push-off Second Deal was described in an anonymous text,  //I segreti del giuoco della Bassetta//, 1803, p. 60. Fifty-eight years later, Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin described it in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12776/Essential+Robert+Houdin/243|Les Tricheries des Grecs Devoilees]]//, 1861, p. 169 of the Hoffmann translation.
   * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/tree/1156|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]]
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