Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre (Giovanni dall'Agocchie)

Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre
Three Books on the Art of Defense
Author(s)	Giovanni dall'Agocchie
Dedicated to	Fabio Pepoli, Count of Castiglione
Place of origin	Venice, Italy
Language	Italian
Genre(s)	Fencing manual
Publisher	G. Tamborino
Publication date	1572
Pages	80
Treatise scans	Digital scans [1] [2] (1572) Digital scans (1572) B&W photocopy (1572) B&W photocopy (1572)

Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre ("Three Books on the Art of Defense") is an Italian fencing manual written by Giovanni dall'Agocchie and published in 1572. It treats the use of the side sword, both single and with secondary weapons, after the Bolognese fashion and represents a shift in the system toward a more thrust-oriented style.

Publication History

Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre was published in Venice in 1572 by G. Tamborino. A second edition may have been published in 1580.

An English translation was prepared by Jherek Swanger and self-published in 2018 under the title The Art of Defense: on Fencing, the Joust, and Battle Formation, by Giovanni dall’Agocchie.

Gallery

Title page

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74v (detail)

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.

• Agocchie, Giovanni dall (2018). The Art of Defense: on Fencing, the Joust, and Battle Formation, by Giovanni dall'Agocchie. Trans. by W. Jherek Swanger. Self-published.

Copyright and License Summary

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Work	Author(s)	Source	License
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Transcription	Andrea Morassutto	Index:Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre (Giovanni dall'Agocchie)