See also:

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

PALLONE (See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian for " large See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball," from See also:

• PALLA, PALA

palla, ball)  , the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball See also:

• GAME

game of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . It is descended, as are all other See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games, such as See also:

• TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

tennis and See also:

• PELOTA (Sp. " little ball," from Lat. piles)

pelota, from the two ball games played by the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans, in one of which a large inflated ball, called follis, was used . The other, probably the immediate ancestor of See also:

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

pallone, was played with a smaller ball, the pila . Pallone was played in See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the 14th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and is still very popular in See also:

• NORTHERN

northern and central Italy . It is played in a court (sferisterio), usually too yds. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and 17 yds. wide . A See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• LINE

line crosses the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the court, which is bounded on one See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side by a high See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, the spectators sitting See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the other three sides, usually protected by See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

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 See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring-See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board, upon which stands the player who receives the service . The implements of the game are the pallone (ball) and the bracciale (See also:

• BAT

bat) . The pallone is an inflated ball covered with See also:

• LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
• LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather, about 48 in. in See also:

• DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter . The bracciale is an See also:

• OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak See also:

• GAUNTLET (a diminutive of the Fr. gant, glove)

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 See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand .

The game is played by two sides—blues and reds—of three men each, the battitore (See also:

• BATTER

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 See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound by a seventh player, the mandarino, who does See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

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 See also:

• BOUNDS, BEATING THE

bounds, or it touches his See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person . This See also:

• COUNTS

counts a point for the adversary . Four points make a game, counting 15, 30, 40 and 5o . See Il Giuoco del pallone, by G . See also:

• FRANCESCHINI, BALDASSARE (1611-1689)

Franceschini (See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, 1903) .