Calcio Fiorentino Calcio Fiorentino Calcio fiorentino (also known as calcio storico "historic football") is an early form of football and rugby that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in the "Piazza Santa Croce" in Florence. There it became known as the "giuoco del calcio fiorentino" ("Florentine kick game") or simply "calcio"; which is now also the name for association football in the Italian language. The game may have started as a revival of the Roman sport of harpastum. Calcio was reserved for rich aristocrats who played every night between Epiphany and Lent. Even popes,
San Vittore, Calcio apostles were completed by Gerolamo Count Oldofredi Tadini of Calcio. Many of the altarpieces derive from suppressed or razed churches in the region, and include works by Enea Salmeggia and a "Mystical Marriage of St Catherine" by Marco Antonio Mainardi. The ceiling and apse frescoes (1934) were completed by Umberto Marigliani. San Vittore, Calcio San Vittore is a neoclassical-style, Roman Catholic parish church in the town of Calcio, province of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. Construction of the church began in 1770, but was interrupted in 1792, and not restarted until 1833. The designs of an architect Bianconi were not