What game did I see in Verona, Italy?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 21 Jul, 2023
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I’m from Verona, and I can assure you it’s called “s’cianco”
My grandparents used to play it as kids.
As described by the Associazione Giochi Antichi, the association of ancient games which, in Verona, is called s-cianco:
A BIT OF HISTORY
S-Cianco , the shorter of the two tools with which you play, it is [also] known in Italian as the lippa.
The game has very ancient origins, as evidenced by the discovery of the late Verona researcher Marco Fittà, who in 2003 identified at the Petrie Museum in London some finds dating back to the XI / XII Dynasty [2134 – 1806 BC] categorized as lippe.
This [means] that the game’s practice was already widespread at least 4000 years ago.
The game is widely practiced in many areas of Europe, North Africa and Asia, such as Spain, France, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, India, Sri Lanka.
In Italy the game is practiced in many regions, [and referred to by different names]: Rella in Milan, Nice, Rome; and Mazza Pivezo in Naples; Ciaramela in Pavia, etc …
- The batsman states the score of bats at the defenders on the opposing team
- The defense relaunches the s-cianco to hit the ‘sea’ to eliminate the batter
- Using the bat to hit the s-cianco on the tip (2), do a wheelie and hit it on the fly (3)
- The striker has three chances to launch the s-cianco as far as possible away from the the sea [the rock]
- After the third shot, the score is declared, or the estimated distance reached by the bat.
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I’d say it is a variant of an ancient italian child game called Lippa, common in most of Italy (and a popular sport in India…don’t ask me why…)
I have some doubts because
The batter tosses wooden peg into the air
is different from the way I used to play it as a children, but everything else is more or less the same.
While it is no more played by kids (italian mothers tend to be overprotective), adults are slowly starting to play it again in small tournaments.
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