Palazzo Ducale, Venezia, c.1920s - Alfredo Pinzi Foto Cartolina

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The game of Calcio

The Venetians played ball games of various kinds. The game of Calcio is the one sounds most modern, but it wasn't exactly like it's played today. Far from it, in fact.

In Italian, modern football is called calcio, so for Italian speakers that's the first association. It is therefore tempting to think of it as a kind of ancient football, but it probably resembled rugby more, as the players — at least in some versions of the game — could pick up the ball with their hands.

Our main source for early modern calcio is Antonio Scaino, in his Treatise on the game of ball from 1555.

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Il Gran teatro di Venezia — Domenico Lovisa

The Il Gran teatro di Venezia was published by the Venetian printer Domenico Lovisa sometimes in the 1710s or 1720s, in any case after 1715, when the application for a printing permit was made.

The full title is a bit of a mouthful: Il Gran teatro di Venezia ovvero descrizzione esatta di cento delle più insigni prospettive, e di altretante celebri pitture della medesima città, il tutto disegnato, e intagliato eccelentemente da periti artefici, con la narrazione della fondazione delle chiese, monasteri, spedali, isolette, e altri luoghi sì pubblici, come privati ... tomi due in foglio imperiale — In Venezia : per Domenico Lovisa sotto i portici a Rialto.

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