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
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	(1659?) 1582, 1612, 1616
Pages	599 pages
Treatise scans	Digital scans (1582) Digital scans (1582) Digital scans (1612) B&W photocopy (1582) B&W photocopy (1582) B&W photocopy (1582)

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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 the preface indicates that it was completed as early as 1569, the first printing of De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana seems to have been by Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1582. Two further editions were produced by Carranza's protégé Luis Pacheco de Narváez in Madrid, Spain, in 1612 and 1616.

Contents

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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