Per una storia dello sport (popolare) in Italia

This article was originally inspired by the research questions which were addressed at the conference on â€Popular sport/the popularity of sport', organised by the University of Florence in November 2019. The article aims to lay the foundations needed to tackle, from an historical perspective, a phenomenon which over the last few decades has been defined as â€popular sport'. In order to achieve these aims the article at first concentrates on the historiography, analysing the various studies on sport. It then moves on to a reconstruction of this phenomenon which, albeit recent, is at the same time profoundly influenced by the past. [Publisher's text].