Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio
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The game of Pallone
The “Game of Pallone” was the quintessential ball game in the Republic of Venice and elsewhere, but it wasn’t really like any modern game.
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Ball games in Venice
The Venetians of yore played ball games for fun and sports. Some of these ball games were similar to modern sports, even if not excessively
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Nobile al Giuoco del Pallone — Grevembroch 1-89
“Nobile al Giuoco del Pallone” from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
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List of fires in Venice
Fires were a very real preoccupation of the Venetians, and there have been many fires in Venice over the centuries