Nobilissimo discorso intorno il schermo (MS Italien 1527)

Nobilissimo discorso intorno il schermo
MS Italien 1527, Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, France
Hagedorn — Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Fencing manual
Date	ca. 1580s
Place of origin	Paris, France (?)
Language(s)	Italian
Author(s)	Girolamo Cavalcabo
External data	Library catalog entry
Treatise scans	B&W photocopy

Nobilissimo discorso intorno il schermo ("Most Noble Discourse on Defense", MS Italien 1527), is an Italian fencing manual written in the 1580s by Girolamo Cavalcabo. It currently rests in the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France. Cavalcabo's treatise discusses the rapier, both single and with various secondary weapons, and is consistent with the Bolognese fencing tradition. Though it doesn't seem to have ever been published in Italian, the treatise was translated and published in Middle French in 1597 and Early New High German in 1611.

Contents

[Manuscript not available for study]

Additional Resources

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• Scharinger, Thomas (2021). "Italianismi nel lessico schermistico del francese cinquecentesco. Un’indagine sulla traduzione francese del ‘Nobilissimo discorso intorno il schermo di spada’ di Girolamo Cavalcabò." Actes du XXIXe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes 5: 735-745. Ed. by Lene Schøsler; Juhani Härmä.

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