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Bondt details the history of tennis in Renaissance Italy--a fairly unresearched topic--and how it became a center for its development as a high cultural form of private court entertainment. He traces the sport from its roots in ancient Greece through fifteenth to eighteenth century Italy, its street and royal versions, court design, and its role at courts in Ferrara, Mantua, Florence, Papal Rome, and others. He also discusses how tennis courts were used as theatres and images of the sport in art, supplementing the text with color plates. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
