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Rumino (also ramino or rumina) is a knock rummy card game of Italian origin for up to six people, in which players try to form sets or sequences of cards. It may possibly have been devised in America during the 1940s by Italian immigrants by adapting the game Scala Quaranta to Gin rummy.
Draughts board in Italian draughts. Italian draughts (Italian: Dama italiana) is a variant of the draughts family played mainly in Italy and Northern Africa. It is a two-handed game played on a board consisting of sixty-four squares, thirty-two white and thirty-two black. There are twenty-four pieces: twelve white and twelve black.
The Rules of the Game (Italian: Il gi(u)oco delle parti [il ˈdʒ(w)ɔːko ˈdelle ˈparti]) is a play by Luigi Pirandello.It was written and first performed during 1918 (and first published in 1919) at the time when his wife was suffering from mental illness, but before she was committed to a mental hospital.
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The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.
Caporegime is an Italian word, used to signify the head of a family in Sicily. In general, the term indicates the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate who commands a crew of soldiers and reports directly to the don ( boss ) or an underboss or street boss.
Briscola (Italian:; Lombard: brìscula; Sicilian: brìscula; Neapolitan: brìscula) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette.A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of briscan and bezique, [1] Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking ace–ten card game for two to six players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck.
Machiavelli (also Thirty-Six) is an Italian card game derived from Rummy and is usually played by 2 up to 5 players, [1] but can be played by even a higher number. Because of its characteristics, it is not generally associated with gambling, but is instead a party game. Its appearance can be traced to World War II.