Società Sportiva Dilettantistica "Amici del Pallone col Bracciale"- Mondolfo(PU)
Although Greco-Roman sources, playing ball with the bracelet was born in courts of Renaissance and was practiced first inside buildings (see Versailles during the French Revolution) and then outside from the end of the 1700s. From that time onwards, became sport circulated and began the proliferation of special arenas (courts:) where players become pr ofessionisti thrilled me the spectators. Famous people of that time were attending the sferisterio where you bet considerable numbers, (Ghoethe ne-cleaved in its "travel"), Giolitti, De Amicis who wrote a book about the game of football with the bracelet, opera singers (Beniamino Gigli was a big fan of bracelet), Leopardi that he wrote an ode to Carlo Didimi, famous ball, even the young Mastai Ferretti, the future Pope Pius IX, was usually play the bracelet when came to Mondolfo find some of his relatives. In various cities of Italy there were companies of players who had scheduled matches daily from may until September and you award the best professionals with astronomical engagements. Florence, Rome, Bologna, Turin, Livorno, but also Macerata (with its monumental sferisterio), Faenza, Fano, Cesena, Verona, Asti, Cuneo, Alba had their sferisterio and their pets. Unfortunately, the advent of football and cycling, brought the game of death flask to the 1950s and survival sporadic in some countries of the Marche and Romagna. In ' 92, the passion of some nostalgic led to the establishment of a National Committee and the organisation of a regular Italian Championship recognized by CONI through affiliation to the Italian Federation although Pallapugno remarkably.
