Following the Footsteps of Spanish Chess Master Lucena in Italy

Lucena was the son of the prothonotary Juan Ramírez de
Lucena, ambassador of the Catholic monarch in Spain. He
wrote a book called Repetición de amores y Arte de Ajedrez
con 150 juegos de partido that was published in Salamanca
around 1497. Around this time he also wrote another book
called Tractado sobre la muerte de Don Diego de Azevedo,
but this book was lost.

One thing is clear - the name Lucena disappeared and we
find it in France in some chess manuscripts and that is all.

This has been our research. Its path has not been easy, but
thanks to a new authorship recognition program it was
possible to detect various books with Lucena's marks. This
book reflects the result of four years' research and describes the possible life and work of Lucena in Italy, where he became a very famous person at the papal curia.
Consequently thanks to this research students have a new
line of investigation about the whereabouts of Lucena for 30
years in Italy at their disposal.