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| <p>Gio: To this difficulty, Meser Lepido, one can reply in more ways than one. One is that one particular incident does not render a universal rule invalid. The other is that the defeat that was suffered by those whom you say to be professors of this exercise was not made by them as fencers, seeing as how it is impossible that they, as such, were defeated. But it can indeed happen to them as lazy, unjust, or base persons, and then they cease to be fencers, and are soon wounded.</p>
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| <p>Gio: To this difficulty, Mr. Lepido, one can reply in more ways than one. One is that one particular incident does not render a universal rule invalid. The other is that the defeat that was suffered by those whom you say to be professors of this exercise was not made by them as fencers, seeing as how it is impossible that they, as such, were defeated. But it can indeed happen to them as lazy, unjust, or base persons, and then they cease to be fencers, and are soon wounded.</p>
 
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| <p>Gio: Slow down, Meser Lepido, because the terms in which my response will proceed will make you understand that the art is indeed necessary. Leaving aside as a special case that sometimes God allows the opposite, I tell you as an infallible rule that everyone can refuse the aid available to him, and that God has given us the sense to tell good from bad. This being the case, it will also be clear that if someone doesn’t want to defend himself or take action, then he’ll emerge the loser for it, although he may have been in the right. And this is because he refused his own aid, for which he can only blame himself. Nor can you deny to me the necessity of the provision which derives from the art of fencing, as I’ll tell you now. I believe that when one is in the right, and has the spirit and strength to defend it, joined to this art, then he will most often be the victor, and in this, your argument holds. But when he renounces his own aid by not wanting to learn how to defend himself, the opposite comes to pass, for which he himself is to be blamed. So, to conclude, one who is partly lacking in boldness and strength needs the art as the necessary repairer of these deficiencies. Because with it, one increases his spirit and accustoms himself to labor, and becomes as judicious and perceptive in the advantage of arms as in the rest. </p>
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| <p>Gio: Slow down, Mr. Lepido, because the terms in which my response will proceed will make you understand that the art is indeed necessary. Leaving aside as a special case that sometimes God allows the opposite, I tell you as an infallible rule that everyone can refuse the aid available to him, and that God has given us the sense to tell good from bad. This being the case, it will also be clear that if someone doesn’t want to defend himself or take action, then he’ll emerge the loser for it, although he may have been in the right. And this is because he refused his own aid, for which he can only blame himself. Nor can you deny to me the necessity of the provision which derives from the art of fencing, as I’ll tell you now. I believe that when one is in the right, and has the spirit and strength to defend it, joined to this art, then he will most often be the victor, and in this, your argument holds. But when he renounces his own aid by not wanting to learn how to defend himself, the opposite comes to pass, for which he himself is to be blamed. So, to conclude, one who is partly lacking in boldness and strength needs the art as the necessary repairer of these deficiencies. Because with it, one increases his spirit and accustoms himself to labor, and becomes as judicious and perceptive in the advantage of arms as in the rest. </p>
 
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<p>Gio: Since yesterday, my Mr. Lepido, I couldn’t do as you wished, owing to the lack of time, I’ll try to do so today, speaking to you of the unaccompanied sword. And it’s convenient for us to deal with this first and then with the other arms, since it is reasonably placed before all others as the principal, most necessary, and most important arm, which we can legitimately say to reign, by virtue of being the ladder and guide, and foundation of all of fencing. </p>
 
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Revision as of 05:47, 9 November 2023

Giovanni dall'Agocchie
Born March 9, 1547
Bologna, Italy
Died 16th century (?)
Occupation Fencing master
Patron Fabio Pepoli, Count of Castiglione (?)
Movement Dardi tradition
Influences
Genres Fencing manual
Language Italian
Notable work(s) Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre (1572)
Translations Traduction française

Giovanni dall'Agocchie di Bologna (dalle Agocchie, Agucchi, Agocchia; b. March 9, 1547) was a 16th century Italian fencing master. Little is known about this master's life apart from that he was a citizen of Bologna. In 1572, dall'Agocchie wrote and published a treatise on warfare, including fencing with the side sword, titled Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre ("Three Books on the Art of Defense"). He dedicated it to Fabio Pepoli, Count of Castiglione, but it's unclear if he was ever attached to the comital court.

Treatise

Additional Resources

The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.

References

  1. NdT – Cette image de l’ange associé aux initiales F.P renvoie au Vénitien Francesco Portonari - Voir Giuseppina Zappella, p89, Le marche dei tipografi e degli editori italiani del Cinquecento. Repertorio di figure, simboli e soggetti e dei relativi motti. Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 1986, 2 v. "Grandi Opere, 1”.