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'Scacchia, Ludus'' by Marcus Hieronymus Vida, written in 1513, first published in 1525 and revised in 1527.
It describes in Latin Virgilian hexameters a chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other gods. Vida struggled to find a suitable nomenclature for the Bishop and the Rook. Instead of the Latin classical terms Alfinus and Rochus, probably meaningless for him, he used an Archer (Sagittifer) and a Tower borne upon the back of an Elephant (Elephas, Elephanti). In the first edition, Centaur and Cyclops were employed. Sometimes, the Queen (Regina) is even called an Amazon. The Tower or Castle has taken its place in the vocabulary of Chess in every European country, except Russia, England and Iceland. However, if English has kept a Rook, the word Castling is still used. For a time, some players used the terms "elephant" and "archer". In German, Schütze ("archer") became a general word for a chess bishop until displaced by Läufer ("runner") in the 18th century.
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