The History in Florence Calcio Historical
Around 1100 the first memorable games of the are born "Kick in livery" today commonly said Kick Florentine or I Kick Historical, game that sinks its roots in the remote times; according to an ancient tradition "the game of the kick" you/he/she was born in fact on the shores of the Arno and, only after centuries, you/he/she has transmigrated on that of the Tamigi where, changed the name in Foot-Ball, you sharpen the rules, you/he/she has achieved that fame, universally recognized today.
"The Florentine Kick" it was not anything else other than one of the so many ways to play with that spherical body of various greatness, that we know how to have been used in all the parts of the world.
From the Greek, that called the game "Sferomachia", the ludo, passed to the Romans that, with the name of "Harpastum" (to tear from strength) they played him/it on the sandy grounds applying precise rules to which the two teams, of peer number of players, had to follow. Taken root him in the custom of the life of every day, it was surely then also introduced in her/it "colony Florentia", where it became, later, the game typical of the city. The competition had virile and sour character: brawls, struggles shut and continuous body body for the possession of the ball they tempered the spirit and they developed the physicist of the citizens and above all of the legionaries that habitually practised him/it.
The Kick was directly practised daily in Florence by the whole youth for the streets and the plazas, but after sometime it was characterized in the duality that he/she saw the unwind of games "you organize", particularly sumptuous, played by city noble that wore sumptuous "liveries" in the most meaningful plazas in the city. The players of the Kick in Livery (kicking) were "gentlemen" from the 18 a 45 years, well lending and of good fame among which some future Pontiffs.
The Kick was played, over that in the period of the Carnival, also in the most varied recurrences or particular events.
The most memorable game of Kick in Livery, to which the actual rievocazione is inspired, February 17 th 1530 was played during the siege in Florence, that had to bring to the loss of the republican liberty.
He/she was wanted to play her some not to interrupt the custom of the game in the period of carnival, some as it challenges to the besieging enemy. For this second reason, was rather select Saint plaza Cross being, more neighbor to the imperial troops attested on the hills of forehead. The rings of trumpet of a group of musici sat on the roof of the Church, launched to sneer of the enemies that they could see and to feel, accompanied the various tireless phases of game. The gesture of challenge vexed the soldiers of the emperor, that shot a hit of artillery from Giramonte; the ball however it passed tall without making damages neither victims provoking only rings and ironic cackles.
The Kick in Livery kept on unwinding without interruptions up to the Seven hundred one when the games, at least those "you organize", they fell in disuse.
The last official competition developed him in January of 1739 in Saint Plaza Cross: after this the secular game extinguished entirely him at least as public demonstration of organized show.
In May 1930, centenary quarter of the siege of Florence and the death of Francis Ferrucci, the historical demonstration took back with renewed vigor and every year, with final in date 24 June (party of S. Giovanni), the 4 ancient districts are faced in Saint Plaza Cross accompanied for the roads of the center by the showing up ones of the Procession of the Florentine Republic departing from the ancient Dominican convent of Saint Maria Novella, among rings of trumpets and to roll of drums that tune up the March to the Field. The motley procession, composed by 530 "showing up", with the "liveries" of the kicking ones, the sixteenth-century uniforms of the Florentine (select among the descendants of the city historical families) noble and the infantrymen, with the weapons and the flags of the epoch, it brings us as for enchantment in the stimulant, spellbound, happy and party-going atmosphere of the Renaissance.
