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PONTE (Ital. for " bridge ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PONTE (Ital. for "
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bridge ")  , a rough
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game
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peculiar to the
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city of
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Pisa, in which the players, divided into two sides and provided with padded costumes, contended for the
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possession of one of the
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bridges over the
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Arno . The weapon used, both for offence and
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defence, was a
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kind of
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shield which served as a
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club as well . A
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history and description of the game may be found in
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William
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Heywood's Palio and Polite (
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London, 1904) .

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