In addition to Bingo, there is also Raffle popular, a similar game that is especially brought out during the holidays. Not so strange that Italians still play a lot of Bingo today. Gambling was restricted and only a few select casinos were licensed.īut of course the desire to gamble did not disappear. The Mussolini government passed a law banning gambling. In 1923, rampant gambling came to an end.
Table game in medieval society (source: )Īfter this time, the casinos quickly spread all over the Boot, so that at the beginning of the 20th century there was a casino on every street corner. Here you could gamble, where it was strictly prohibited in other places in the city. In the Middle Ages there were the baratterie medievali, the predecessors of the later casinos. Gambling took off in Italy, because the Italians were (and are) fond of it. Later, Ridotto faced competition from various gambling halls. The Ridotto ('the private room') in Venice was wildly popular with the elite of its day.
Il Ridotto di palazzo Dandolo a San Moise, a painting by Francesco Guardi (source: Wikimedia) That came from the beans, which the numbers were covered with. Bingo is a corruption of Beano, as the form was called that Bingo was played with.
