De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana (Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza)

De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana
On the Philosophy of Arms and its Skill, and Christian Offense and Defense
150px Title page of the 1569 edition
Author(s)	Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
Dedicated to	Duke Alonso de Guzmán
Place of origin	Medina-Sidonia, Spain
Language	Spanish
Genre(s)	Fencing manual
Publication date	1569, 1582, 1612, 1616
Pages	599 pages
Treatise scans	Digital scans (1612) Black and white photocopy (1569) Black and white photocopy (1582) Black and white photocopy (1582) Black and white photocopy (1569)

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De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana ("On the Philosophy of Arms and its Skill, and Christian Offense and Defense") is a Spanish fencing manual written by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza and initially printed in 1569. Carranza's treatise presented a new system of rapier fencing based on geometry which he called la Verdadera Destreza ("The True Skill").

Publication History

Although - according to the preface - completed as early as 1569 De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana was first printed in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1582. Printing was renewed in 1612 by Carranza's student Luis Pacheco de Narváez in Madrid, Spain.

Contents

Page	Section
1r - 8v	Preface by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
9r - 64r	First Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
64v - 133v	Second Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
134r - 205v	Third Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
206r - 280v	Fourth Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza

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