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Girolamo Cavalcabo
| Girolamo Cavalcabo | |
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| Born | 16th century Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 17th century London, England? (?) |
| Relative(s) | Zachara Cavalcabo (father?) |
| Occupation | Fencing master |
| Influences | Angelo Viggiani dal Montone |
| Influenced | André des Bordes (?) |
| Genres | Fencing manual |
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| Notable work(s) | Traité ou instruction pour tirer des armes (1597) |
| Manuscript(s) | MS Italien 1527 (1580s) |
Girolamo Cavalcabo (Hieronyme Calvacabo, Hieronimo Cavalcabo) was a 16th century Italian fencing master. He was a citizen of Bologna and may have trained fencing under Angelo Viggiani dal Montone;[1] he seems to have traveled to London in the 1580s or 1590s and set up a school.[citation needed] During this period he also wrote a treatise on the use of the rapier entitled Nobilissimo discorso intorno il schermo ("Most Noble Discourse on Defense"), though it would not be published until 1597. In the early 17th century, he received a position in the court of Henry IV of France as fencing instructor to his son Louis (the future Louis XIII).[citation needed]
Contents
Treatise
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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.
- Cavalcabo, Girolamo (2015). Treatise or Instruction for Fencing: By Hieronymus Calvacabo of Bologna and Patenostrier of Rome. Trans. by Rob Runacres. Self-published.
- 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.
References
- ↑ This has been asserted by some writers, but it may be a confused interpretation of the fact that Zachara Cavalcabo produced the second printing of Viggiani's book in 1588.
