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However several historians argue that Scopone was known centuries before Chitarella. 2 2 2 Īt that time, Capecelatro wrote that the game was known by 3-4 generations, therefore it might have been born in the eighteenth century
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Was written by Capecelatro in 1855, “Del giuoco dello Scopone”. The first original book about Scopone, that is still available, Unfortunately, there are no copies available of the original book and the eldest reprint is from 1937. The rules of the game and a compendium of strategy rules for advanced players. The first known book about Scopone was published in 1750 by Chitarella and contained both It is often referred to as Scopone Scientifico, that is, Scientific Scopone). Originally, the game was played by poorly educated people andĪs any other card game in Italy at the time was hindered by authority.īeing considered intellectually challenging, the game spread among highly educated people and high rank politicians 1 1 1E.g., Īchieving, nowadays, a vast popularity and a reputation similar to Bridge (for which
#CHITARRELLA MOVIE#
Photo: Alberto Sordi in Lo scopone scientifico (Italian movie directed by Luigi Comencini, 1972) Italian elders playing cards in Civitavecchia, Rome/ is a popular Italian card game whose origins date back to (at least) 1700s.
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“Tell your former friend to give us the cards, we just want to have a match among ourselves until the end of the “legislatura”, we will consider the elections afterwards”. “Why should I go on to play in couple with Berlusconi?”, states Fini.
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Mr Fini, Mr Casini, Mr Rutelli and Mr Bersani are having an argument on the issue to form the couple to play against Mr Berlusconi. Italy is wasting time in a very pleasant way, but the inheritors of this disaster will pay the consequences.įrom time to time it appears that the European politics is going along a similar path, maybe the Italians are spreading their syndrome in the old continent. Italy is a Country in which this sort of policy has left the administration of the State unattended, the debt has grown without limits and any category of people, from workers to students is just asking for more money. While dis cussing and approving the laws the second main Chitarrella rule applies, the political parties are just focused to “parigliare” and “sparigliare” the alliances, they do not consider the laws in their content and in their utility for the future. The result of this is that over the last decades a high level of anarchy has been reached. This idea comes from the fact that historically the government is a power to be mitigated in order to deny any tyrant as Mussolini the possibility to re-put in place a new dictatorship. These two ideas are crucial to understand the Italian political system the first main Chitarrella rule is about the fact that any “legislatura”, the five year term of the Parliament, is a timeframe in which the majority of the political parties are granting themselves the right to play several matches with different actors regardless to the mandate received by the people. There are two main ideas behind the game: the first is that the players have to rotate after a set of matches, and the second is that during the game the players of a couple have to pair (parigliare) the cards of the same seed between them and, vice versa, they have to try to dispair (sparigliare) the cards of the adversaries. At the end of the day, we are just talking about a way to waste time and have fun, no work, no stress, just relax.Īccording to a legend, a priest in the 16 th century wrote a very detailed list of rules called Le regole dello scopone scientifico di Chitarrella (The rules of scopone scientifico by Chitarrella). As any couple-played game, the allegiance and the mutual understanding are the most important assets to play, the results are somehow less important than the game itself. It is a very popular one over the Peninsula and is played by four people. Whoever in the world intends to understand the Italian political arena game, has to learn the “scopone scientifico”, a card game.