Memorie del calcio fiorentino

Tratte da diverse Scritture e dedicate all’Altezze Serenissime di Ferdinando Principe di Toscana e Violante Beatrice di Baviera, In Firenze, Nella Stamperia di S.A.S. alla Condotta, 1688. In-4° (245x18 mm). [12], 118 p., 2 tab. folded depicting the View of Piazza Santa Croce, drawn by Alessandro Cecchini, and the Plan and ordinance of the two teams; chalcographic coat of arms of the Medici engraved by Francesco Nacci on the frontispiece. Large figured initials, engraved headpieces and tailpieces. Parchment binding with title on a tag on the spine.

1688 edition, much more copious than any other, of the first and most important treatise on the game of Florentine football, published to commemorate the celebratory match played during the wedding celebrations of Ferdinando de' Medici and Princess Violante Beatrice of Bavaria between December 1688 and January 1689. The players, all members of the Florentine aristocracy, are listed as teams under the headings "Europeans (red) and Asiatics (green)". The work offers a new edition of Giovanni Bardi's "Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio", originally published by Giunti in 1580, accompanied by other writings (a Latin treatise on the game by the Jesuit G.B. Ferrari, a description of the game in Greek verse by Georgios Koresios followed by a translation into Tuscan dialect by A.M. Salvini and a "Cantata in musica" by Jacopo del Borgo