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  • | <p>''Might it please Sir Canon Carlo del Vigna to see if the present work contains anything repugnant to Christian piety, and pub <p>Every day we see youths of such ambition, that under the cloak of letting their virtue be kn
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  • ...nd dead in bed on June 28, 1623, barely 18 years of age. It has never been resolved whether his demise was a result of drunkenness or treachery. At any rate, c ...is he endowed with full and marvelous advantage of that of the sword, but also of every other chivalric art, as his heroic actions by the same, to the won
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  • ...e to be of use and to do good deeds to others. In consideration whereof, I resolved to reduce into a brief treatise as much of the understanding and practice o | <p>Gio: Certainly, my Mr. Lepido. Since I see your wits to be awakened to virtue, I would fully satisfy you in that which
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  • ''It also includes an Italian transcription by Steven Reich which was also released in print as ''Antonio Manciolino''; it can be purchased in [http:/ ...hrow yourself forward to ward before the blow has come to force. One could also strike him in the hand, the reason being that it would interfere with his f
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  • ...to handle all those weapons on horseback which here are taught on foot, as also all other weapons whatsoever.</p> ...Art, as is needful, It is requisite not only that he be able to judge, but also that he be strong and active to put in execution all that which his judgmen
    329 KB (59,158 words) - 20:34, 25 March 2024
  • ...ndon in 1590 and quickly gained a great deal of prestige; he seems to have also taken on the former school of Italian master [[Rocco Bonetti]]. There are a ...s very great and necessarie use thereof, not onely in generall warres, but also in particular combats, & many other accidents, where a man having the perfe
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  • ...is known about this master's life, but he was Bolognese by birth and might also have been connected to the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.<ref name ...man can not only defend himself from whatsoever blow his enemy wills, but also offend him not a little.
    213 KB (34,622 words) - 14:38, 24 March 2024
  • ...he famous commander Alessandro, Duke of Parma, in Flanders in 1582. He was also a friend of Galileo Galilei and a prolific writer, though unfortunately mos ...eference the ''Vitruvian Man'' in a fencing treatise.<ref>See pp. 7-9. See also Gotti 2023, pp. 130-133.</ref> However, his treatise is unique in that it w
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  • | label1 = Also&nbsp;known&nbsp;as :''To view a version of this table without illustrations, see [[Johannes Lecküchner/No illustrations]].''
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  • ...Alexander has completed the preceeding action, he pauses briefly, so as to see if his adversary will try to work against him, so he can counter it. But as ...onent’s guard and moves his left side leaning still further forward, as we see portrayed in the figure.
    536 KB (96,447 words) - 19:55, 26 January 2024
  • the whole of Europe in suspens, but that he also deigned to know and favor of their subjects. I resolved that when everyone efforces themselves to
    404 KB (73,905 words) - 20:17, 29 October 2023
  • ...impossible to continue long, in doing so many kinds of movements as we can see performed by the human body, were this not moderated with regard to weight ...t in front at the same time, something impossible for other creatures: and also for the same, or possibly similar reason, the arms were placed in such a wa
    896 KB (162,560 words) - 20:00, 26 January 2024