Pietro Carrera

Pietro Carrera ( born July 12, 1573 Militello in Val di Catania, † September 18, 1647 in Messina ) was an Italian chess player.

Life

Carrera was the son of the craftsman Mariano Carrera and his wife Donna Antonia Severino. He studied at the Seminario Diocesiano of Siracusa and became a priest. After working as a chaplain of the church of S. Maria della Stella Carrera went to the court of Francesco Branciforte. In honor of Princess Giovanna, wife Brancifortes, Carrera wrote there the Short Poem Pessopedia, which has only survived in fragments.

After the death of Prince Carrera first moved to Messina, then Canicatti and finally to Catania.

Chess

At Brantifortes yard Carrera developed an interest for the game of chess, where he defeated Salvatore albino and Gerolamo Cascio. Cascio had won a duel against Giulio Cesare Polerio. The eight -volume work Il Gioco degli Scacchi ( 1617) was the first book printed in Messina. It united the Carrera collected by previous authors knowledge of the game of chess. However, the book is as historically inaccurate, as Palamedes is described as the inventor of chess as in the first volume.

In his later years, Carrera began a confrontation with Alessandro Salvioli.

Carrera invented a chess variant that resembles the 1940 José Raúl Capablanca invented by Capablanca Chess.

Works

• Pessopedia
• Gioco degli Scacchi II di Pietro D. Carrera, diviso in otto Libri. In Militello, M.DC.XVII. 8 volumes. Militello 1617
• Risposta di Valentino Vespaio contro l' apologia di Alessandro Salvio. Catania in 1635 (using a pseudonym )

Swell

• Pietro Carrera at Chess Archeology

• Historian
• Author
• Chess players
• Roman Catholic priest (17th century)
• Historical person (Italy )
• Sicilian
• Born in 1573
• Died in 1647
• Man