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The Origins of Wonder

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-In all probability, sleeves were among the first places for magicians, gamblers and thieves to hid their unmentionables. This method of holding out is possibly older than the printing press, making it difficult to trace a precise origin (although this is strictly conjecture). By 1543, sleeving had become advanced enough for Pietro Aretino to describe a metallic holdout to switch cards from within a sleeve. This was published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12741/Gibeci+re/114|Dialogo di Pietro Aretino nel qvale si parla del gioco con moralità piacevole]]//, p. 378. Translations of the gambling and card magic material from this book --- along with copious notes --- were provided by Aurelio Paviato and Lori Pieper for inclusion in //Gibecière//, Vol. 2 No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 85-118.+In all probability, sleeves were among the first places for magicians, gamblers and thieves to hide their unmentionables. This method of holding out is possibly older than the printing press, making it difficult to trace a precise origin (although this is strictly conjecture). By 1543, sleeving had become advanced enough for Pietro Aretino to describe a metallic holdout to switch cards from within a sleeve. This was published in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12741/Gibeci+re/114|Dialogo di Pietro Aretino nel qvale si parla del gioco con moralità piacevole]]//, p. 378. Translations of the gambling and card magic material from this book --- along with copious notes --- were provided by Aurelio Paviato and Lori Pieper for inclusion in //Gibecière//, Vol. 2 No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 85-118.
  
 In the eighteenth century, performers were getting bolder with their sleeving techniques; instead of hiding coins in their own sleeves, they'd use the sleeves of spectators. This can be seen in Richard Neve's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/107|The Merry Companion, or Delights for the Ingenious]]//, 1716, p. 90. In the same book, Neve teaches readers how to change a playing card into a live bird: the card goes into the sleeve, the bird comes out. This appears on [[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/142|p. 125]]. In the eighteenth century, performers were getting bolder with their sleeving techniques; instead of hiding coins in their own sleeves, they'd use the sleeves of spectators. This can be seen in Richard Neve's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/107|The Merry Companion, or Delights for the Ingenious]]//, 1716, p. 90. In the same book, Neve teaches readers how to change a playing card into a live bird: the card goes into the sleeve, the bird comes out. This appears on [[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/142|p. 125]].