Meister Ingold

Ingold, Meister, a Dominican friar of Strasburg, wrote c.1432 Das goldene Spiel, a prose allegory after the manner of the chess allegories (see Schachbücher). Das goldene Spiel includes not only chess as an allegory of pride, but other pastimes: a board game symbolizes gluttony, dice betoken covetousness, cards unchastity, dancing sloth, skittles anger, and lute-playing envy and hatred. A partial source is the Solatium ludi scaccorum of Jacopo Dacciesole, also known as Jacobus de Cessolis, a Dominican monk of the 13th c., whose monastery was near Alessandria in Lombardy.