THE FIRST FROM OF FOOTBALL?- Florence recently commemorated, in a series of pagants and festivities, the famous siege of 1530, when the city was closely invested by papal and imperial troops, Clement VII, and Charies V, both being determined to crush the independent republic and restore the <Medici rules, Footboll, the "giuoco del calcio," was the favourite ga,me of the young Florentines those days. Photograph shows a reconstruction of the “calcio game, complete in all historical details.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 19
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77THE FIRST FROM OF FOOTBALL?- Florence recently commemorated, in a series of pagants and festivities, the famous siege of 1530, when the city was closely invested by papal and imperial troops, Clement VII, and Charies V, both being determined to crush the independent republic and restore the <Medici rules, Footboll, the "giuoco del calcio," was the favourite ga,me of the young Florentines those days. Photograph shows a reconstruction of the “calcio game, complete in all historical details. Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 19
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