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| movement             = Bolognese swordsmanship
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'''Filippo Dardi''' (died 1464)<ref name=Rubboli>[[Marco Rubboli]] and [[Luca Cesari]]. ''[[:File:The_Knightly_Art_of_Combat_of_Filippo_Vadi.pdf‎|The Knightly Art of Combat of Filippo Vadi]]''. Document circulated online.</ref> was a [[century::15th century]] [[nationality::Italian]] [[fencing master]]. He was an expert not only on fencing, but also astrology, astronomy, geometry, and mathematics.<ref name="Vadi">[[Philippo di Vadi]]. ''Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi: 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Filippo Vadi''. Trans. Luca Porzio and Gregory Mele. Union City, CA: [[Chivalry Bookshelf]], 2002.</ref> The son of Bartolomeo (or Dardo) Dardi, he was probably Bolognese by birth (though records exist of a Spanish Lippo Dardi teaching at the University of Bologna between 1444 and 1453).{{cn}}

In 1412, Dardi was licensed as a fencing master and opened a school in Bologna (in via Pietralata);<ref name="Vadi"/> beginning in 1443, he received an annual stipend of 150 lire from the city in exchange for reducing his fees.<ref>Trevor Dean. "[https://medievalcrimehistory.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/how-much-to-join-a-fighting-class/ How much to join a fighting class?]". ''Medieval Crime History'', 2015.</ref> In 1434, he seems to have written a treatise on fencing and geometry, and was subsequently given a professorship in geometry at the University of Bologna.<ref name=Rubboli/> Though Dardi's treatise has since been lost, he influenced a great number of prominent 16th century masters, including [[Antonio Manciolino]], [[Achilles Marozzo]], [[Angelo Viggiani]], and [[Giovanni dall'Agocchie]]. Dardi is often credited as the founder of the Bolognese school of swordsmanship, though is can't be demonstrated from available information; he may simply be the earliest fencer from Bologna whose name is well-known.

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