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  • ...g the work to the patron, justifying the work’s existence and its purpose, common in treatises of the period. [note from Henry Fox]</ref></p> ...Such exercise makes it easier to be skilled in peace and war.''<ref>It was common to refer to “ancients” in the justification of the art of swordsmanship
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  • Your knowledge Defend from those and eshew the common
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  • ...particular combats, & many other accidents, where a man having the perfect knowledge and practise of this arte, although but small of stature and weake of stren ...xpresse in this discourse, and to make plain by pictures all the skill and knowledge which I have in this art: Exhorting all men of good mindes and noble spirit
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  • | {{red|So that one can masterfully praise<br/>&emsp;Your knowledge}} | {{red|Four positions alone<br/>&emsp;Defend from those and eschew the common}}
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  • <p>Every master of arms professes some knowledge of it, few have written treatises and nobody up until now has condensed thi <p>These exercises were common into the early centuries of the Italic nation, and if they are never expres
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  • ...ernicious, that for this reason you no longer hear of people gathering for common benefit and practice, and to pass the time in the virtue of fencing. </p> ...have distinguished themselves up until now, demonstrating their valour and knowledge, in my view did not take this route. Indeed anxious to prove their worth as
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  • | <p>And because, the knowledge of the manner and Time to strike and defend, does of itself teach us the sk ...man may give a reason. But if it so fall out that any man (not having the knowledge of these advertisements) perform any sure act, which may be said to be hand
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  • ...he rider should grab the horse by the head, and have it circulate. This is knowledge from the Chapter of Warfare (''fa-hādhā bāb al-ḥarb''). The rider has ...ption of the play with the dagger (''al-kazlak''). In our times, it is not common" <ref> Pseudo Ibn Akhī Ḥizām Kitāb al-makhzūn, 64r </ref>
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  • ...tiful blow since many know how to throw a beautiful blow, but few have the knowledge of warding them, so that they are not offended. And such guardians rest sat | <p>[20] Two players finding each other to be of equal knowledge of the art, is the reason why one will not know how to give a blow to his c
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  • | rowspan="3" | <p>CON: No, no, let us follow the common way: you know what I want from you, Rodomonte: that you make me something l ...de? And can you not form all those guards named by our Masters, and by the common school, and “''guardia da entrare''”, and “''guardia di testa''”, a
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  • | The four positions alone,<br/>hold from them, it says, and flee the common. <p>When the rich one has neither art nor knowledge, he wastes his possessions and goods, and has nothing left.</p>
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  • ...vision of fencing, and is treated of its first part, which is posed in the knowledge of the sword.</p> ...rt and of nature, and more so than does knowledge, instills in us the sage knowledge of many particular details.</p>
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  • <p>The knowledge that since your tender years your illustrious Lordship has greatly delighte ...e owes to or can add to it; and if one has to add to the art of combat the knowledge of how to defend his own person, which is indeed its fundamental principle,
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  • ...ons established. We wish only to say that after acquiring this inestimable knowledge a man should not become puffed up nor use it violently to the detriment of ...ach as he pleases, since in whatever position he is he will succeed by his knowledge of distances, weak and strong positions, exposed and unexposed parts. Never
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  • Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking ''[[Wanderjahre]]'' in which the apprentice learned
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  • ...e evidence of the mobility of the author (or, at least, of the exchange of knowledge between Naples and the rest of Europe). ...s and from that voice that followed confusedly, whose aim was no more than common praise meshed with marvel, praising the courage, the dexterity, the force a
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  • * ''Engliſh maiſters of defence, are profitable members in the common wealth, if they teach with ancient Engliſh weapons of true Defence, weight ...hem to stand upon school tricks and juggling gambols. Whereby it grew to a common speech among the countrymen "Bring me to a fencer, I will bring him out of
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  • ...and even if one cuts a Middle or Thwart Strike, then that cut still has a common name with the High or Low Cut, then just as no Middle Cut can be made, unle | <p><small>[17]</small> Thus have I put forth a short and summary knowledge of sword-fighting and all noteworthy ''Stücken'' and also the translations
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  • ...ore” certainly existed as a real name for a man in medieval Italy—it was a common unisex medieval Christian name derived from the Italian word for flower. Al ...d the word “''Scientia''” may mean simply “knowledge”. Thus “the skill and knowledge of armed fighting”.</ref> including the art of fighting in the lists<ref>
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  • common good had not given me that freedom. I feared everything in my second the designs of YOUR MAJESTY, I should not hide the knowledge which
    404 KB (73,905 words) - 20:17, 29 October 2023

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