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Don Casimir Freschot and published by Giovanni Par

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Pills have induced children to cry for the first, and we venture to assert that the ingenious originators of this idea, have rendered the second attractive.[press quotes printed inside the box lid of the Merriam game seen below]These maps of the Caribbean Antilles and China are details from a map game conceived by the Benedictine priest, Don Casimir Freschot and published by Giovanni Pare in Venice in about 1680."This game is probably the earliest geographical game ever published." [!??]Freschot was an author of about 50 books, mainly on history subjects, and a few dedicated to Venice and its nobility. While in Venice he also composed a goose game to facilitate "the teaching of geography to the young venetian nobility". The copper plate was engraved by Lucini and comprised 4 larger maps of the continents and 153 smaller maps of other areas and with a prospect of Venice at the center of it. There is only one known example in existance of the full broadsheet at the Biblioteca Nazionale

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