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Encyclopedia Britannica



PALLONE (Italian for " large ball," from palla, ball)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 639 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALLONE (Italian for " large ball," from palla, ball) , the national ball game of Italy. It is descended, as are all other court games, such as tennis and pelota, from the two ball games played by the Romans, in one of which a large inflated ball, called follis, was used. The other, probably the immediate ancestor of pallone, was played with a smaller ball, the pila. Pallone was played in Tuscany as early as the 14th century, and is still very popular in northern and central Italy. It is played in a court (sferisterio), usually too yds.
long
  and 17 yds. wide. A white line crosses the middle of the court, which is bounded on one side by a high
wall
 , the spectators sitting round the other three sides, usually protected by wire screens. One end of the court is called the battuta and the other the ribtattuta. At the end of the battuta is placed a
spring
 -board, upon which stands the player who receives the service. The implements of the game are the pallone (ball) and the bracciale (bat). The pallone is an inflated ball covered with leather, about 48 in. in
diameter
 . The bracciale is an oak gauntlet, tubular in shape, and covered with
long
  spike-like protuberances. It weighs between five and six pounds and is provided with a grip for the hand. The game is played by two sidesblues and redsof three men each, the battitore (
batter
 ), spalla (back) and terzino (third). At the beginning of a game the battitore stands on the
spring
 -board and receives the ball thrown to him on the bound by a seventh player, the mandarino, who does duty for both sides.. The
batter
  may ignore the ball until it comes to him to his liking, when he runs down the spring-board and strikes it with his bracciale over the centre line towards his opponents. The game then proceeds until a player fails to return the ball correctly, or hits it out of bounds, or it touches his person. This
counts
  a point for the adversary. Four points make a game, counting 15, 30, 40 and 5o.
See Il Giuoco del pallone, by G. Franceschini (
Milan
 , 1903).


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