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Florence Has Preserved a Sport the Modern World Could Never Invent Imagine a ball game played by 54 athletes on a field covered in sand. Players can run with the ball, throw it, kick it, wrestle opponents to the ground, and fight for control while thousands of spectators watch from temporary stands in one of…