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  • * ca. 1699 – gifted to Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750), who created a [[Fior di Battaglia (MS XXIV)|copy of the preface]](<small>FLZ</s
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  • ...bout the life of this master. It may be that he was the same Philippo Vadi who was governor of Reggio under the marquisette of Leonello d’Este and later ...ined and clever man of good intelligence overtakes and surpasses any other who is stouter and stronger than him.</p>
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  • ...ous and various. You can do them from all the strokes against the fighters who strike to the Messer and not to the peaks of the man. Now, you should perfo <poem style="color:#A40000;">Who can do the wheel
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  • ...|Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav.]] (<small>HTWo</small>) in the 1600s by a scribe who couldn't decipher the Latin text.<ref>See [[Page:Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav. 4
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  • ...so studied fencing, either with or under [[Balthasaro Cramonio Pomerano]], who was a student of [[Johannes Herwart of Würtzburg]] (discoverer/looter of t
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  • ...now laid out and explained, therefore every fencer can understand the art, who already understands how to fence.<section end="1"/>
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  • <p>He who steps after cutting, <br/>will not be happy with his luck.</p>
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  • ...children. His father was a successful goldsmith, originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary. The Germ Dürer's godfather was Anton Koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year of Dürer's
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  • ...tack from a lighter weapon. This guard is also the High Guard of the Lady, who with her skill can fool the other guards, because you will think she is goi <p>''We are the blows called Under,<br/>Who always seek to strike the hands;<br/>And we dispute from the knees up<br/>A
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  • ...on a variety of martial topics by several different masters, most of whom who stood in the tradition of the grand master [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]. There ...cruel giant, whom all men feared except for little David (that is, Christ) who alone killed him, and chopped his head off with his own sword, which was th
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  • * ca. 1635 – rebound by a master papermaker who worked at the Puy-moyen mill for Sieur Janssen.
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  • ...them, you shall find them in the last chapter of the recital which says, "Who hangs well..."<section end="21"/> | {{red|Who fully commands and correctly breaks<br/>&emsp;And makes complete irrefutabl
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  • ...ve been a student of [[Guido Antonio di Luca]],{{cn}} the Bolognese master who taught [[Achille Marozzo]] in the same period. His fencing manual is dedica | <p>[6] Against those players who make their blows with great impetus, so that they often engender fear in th
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  • ...aurenfeyndt]] (who includes it in his treatment of long sword fencing, but who also borrows from other authors like [[Andre Lignitzer]] without attributio
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  • * 1960-1999 – owned by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), who purchased each fragment that surfaced at auction (28 leaves in 1960, 11 lea
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  • ...t high and run in with the arm and the Messer high and against the foolish who leap from one side to the other and dance and do the villain strokes above ...ll, as the long point is the best defense in the Messer and the sword, and who can fight from it, forces the man that he must let himself be beaten agains
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  • <p>Finally it is just to admit that he who labours for others is always worthy of being commended.</p> ...ppiness, also prized virtue, skill, and agility, reputing as blessed those who were solemnly considered stronger and faster than others.<ref>This passage
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  • This manuscript eventually passed into the library of [[Paulus Hector Mair]], who seems to have acquired it in 1539 and bound it into the current [[Hans Mede ...d and interpreted as lay written here in this book, so that any one fencer who can otherwise fight properly may well go through and understand. And therea
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  • ...<br/>Master Dietrich Degenfechter von Braunschweig.<br/>Master Ott, a Jew, who was the wrestler to the Lords of Austria.</p> | <p>Fall over whoever wants those who wrestle with you on the neck.</p>
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  • ...as to have control over it: to have the power to save or take lives. Those who knew the Art of Fencing kept such knowledge as a closely guarded secret. In ...who would be expected to duel with others of their station, as well as any who wished to join the military and needed to be well-trained in both offensive
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