Ascension Address: Giolitti As It Is Played
Giolitti is a two-player trick-taking card game thought to have been played widely across northern Italy in the 17th and early 18th century. Despite its popularity, the culture of the game was unusually secretive in nature and little is known about its rules today, beyond the fact that it was played with a tarot deck (most likely a version of the Tarocco Bolognese) and that its trump suit may have reflected and satirised political characters of the time. Cartlesham (1912) suggests that the “Traditore” trump card, which reappears across all known versions of the game, may represent a high-ranking figure from the court of the Doge of Venice, although contemporary sources and card illustrations appear to disagree over the individual’s exact identity.
Replace “Doge” with “Dealer” and “Elector” with “Player”.
Bucky:
You can’t use the term “Player” for players! The term’s already present in the Appendix as a synonym for Player.
...except that it looks like we never put that appendix entry back after the Treaty Dynasty ended. I don’t know whether to say “oops” or “good riddance”.