Crossword-Solution: GIOCO 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dante describes him among those whose faces were turned backward, because they had refused to turn the right way: “Michele Scotto fu, che veramente De le magiche frode seppe il gioco.” In Scotland marvellous tales were current of him, and his own clansman, Sir Walter, in his lay, has spread the mysterious tale of the Wizard and his mighty book far and wide.

While racking the resources of allusive diction to veil and to suggest an immodest movement of his hero (Adonis being goaded beyond the bounds of boyish delicacy by lascivious sights), he suddenly subsides with a knavish titter into prose: Così il fanciullo all'inonesto gioco.

Quasi Synopsis Tragoediarum omnium.--NON GIOCO, MA GIOCASTA." "Omne genus scripti, gravitate Tragoedia vincit." "Hæ quatuor Tragoediæ, instar omnium Tragoediarum pro tempore: præsertim cum reliquarum non suppetit copia.