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  • ...to the present age, as you can see every day principally in Tuscany, while other arts that were not practised in antiquity have been discovered.</p> ...Egyptians followed the same example both with representations of bulls and other animals they held in veneration, and with numerous hieroglyphics alluding t
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  • | [[Wolfenbüttel Picture Book (Cod.Guelf.78.2 Aug.2º)|Cod.Guelf.78.2 Aug.2º]] (1465-80) ...f [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (MS Thott.290.2º)|MS Thott.290.2º]] (1459); on the other hand, the escutcheon and the mantling are quite different between the two,
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  • ...le="font-weight:normal; font-size:85%;">&#91;{{edit|Achille_Marozzo/Second Book|edit}}&#93;</span> &nbsp; </includeonly>Images</p> | '''BOOK 2'''
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  • ...s might provide insight into Fiore's disposition as a young man. See Pozzo book 4, chapter 3, and also Leoni 2012, pp ⅹⅹⅳ-ⅹⅹⅴ.</ref> ...oth names are given in Latin so there is little we can conclude about them other than that they were probably among the Italians and Germans he alludes to,
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  • ...hat it can stand alone in the public hall of your Royal Palace, and in the other public places of your ample Dominion, as much glory moreover will arise mer ...with full and marvelous advantage of that of the sword, but also of every other chivalric art, as his heroic actions by the same, to the wonder of all, cle
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  • ...uscript is used to structure the treatise on this page. Viggiani's printed book includes side notes that indicate the topic discussed in a particular regio ...to you nature was a most abundant donor, and speak particularly of so many other infinite virtues you acquire through your own studies, and of most knowledg
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  • ...the 1460s. His name is actually associated with just two sections of that book: he is credited as the author of an armored fencing treatise which was real ...the end of the mounted gloss in a few copies. Apart from the Augsburg, the other principal text in Branch A is the [[Codex Speyer (MS M.I.29)|Salzburg versi
    153 KB (25,703 words) - 21:55, 19 April 2024
  • ...es secrets du premier livre sur l'espée seule]]'' ("Secrets of the Premier Book on the Single Sword") and printed on 4 June 1573, is known to survive; it s | '''THE TREATY CONTAINING THE SECRETS OF THE FIRST BOOK ON THE SWORD ALONE, MOTHER OF'''
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  • ...ll go through and understand. And thereafter also enriched and improved by other masters and especially through Master Hans Medel from Salzburg which then f | ''manfully brandish<br/>&emsp;and, in other hands, ruin.''
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  • | class="noline" | <p>'''The Second Part of the True Artful Fencing Book''' Wherein Will Be Found All Distinguished, Effective, and Mysterious Techn ...s a reverse to the right cheek, or equally, when he strikes through to the other side, to the left cheek.
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  • ...master, but he describes himself as a Freifechter and the contents of his book make it clear that he was associated with the tradition of [[Johannes Liech ...echter and not from misbegotten fencers, like when one blind man leads the other and both fall into a ditch. </p>
    190 KB (29,865 words) - 22:36, 28 March 2024
  • ...me of the parish in Herzogenaurach, in the year of our Lord 1478, but this book was written and completed in the 82nd year on the eve of St. Sebastian." (' ...the princes and lords, and his art will be better rewarded to him than to other masters who do not know these things and cannot perform them. Namely, there
    468 KB (81,340 words) - 16:05, 17 November 2023
  • ...s. There are a few bibliographical references to an earlier edition of the book, but no direct evidence that it ever existed. ...e pommel which are used for grappling, closing in, gripping, throwing, and other things. The second part is the Starcke (strong) which is used for cutting,
    155 KB (27,229 words) - 01:38, 19 October 2023
  • | title = Book 1 - Tableau / Plate XII - Stepping inside the Angle between the Swords. ...attempts to attack. At some times he will completely open up the angle, at other times he will do no more than prepare to. But all with such moves as he hop
    536 KB (96,447 words) - 19:55, 26 January 2024
  • | title = Index (other weapons) | title = Index (other weapons)
    67 KB (11,334 words) - 19:51, 27 October 2023
  • ...introduction of the inquisition: citizens armed with capes and swords and other weapons assaulted the garrison of Castelnuovo, which was defended with [[pi ...ferent references to the martial traditions of other parts of Italy and of other European countries, and this could be evidence of the mobility of the autho
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  • | [[Tournament book]] by [[Paulus Hector Mair]]
    57 KB (8,602 words) - 00:08, 26 October 2023
  • ...he rapier illustrations of his 1561 manuscript and the dagger plays in his book.</ref> ...cht of Mecklenburg at his court in Schwerin. There Meyer hoped to sell his book for a better price than was offered locally (30 florins). Meyer sent his bo
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  • ...the princes and lords, and his art will be better rewarded to him than to other masters who do not know these things and cannot perform them. Namely, there ..., as they do not want to do anything but displace and they want to look at other men’s strokes and work, they are beaten and weakened in spite of their en
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  • ...Skill") in contrast to the [[esgrima vulgar]] ("vulgar fencing") taught by other masters. ...essor, [[Luis Pacheco de Narváez]], succeeded in virtually eliminating the other schools of Iberian fence in favor of Carranza's teachings.
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