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Guido Antonio di Luca
| Guido Antonio di Luca | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15th century |
| Died | 16th century |
| Occupation | Fencing master |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Citizenship | Bologna, Italy |
| Movement | Dardi School |
| Influenced | Antonio Manciolino Achille Marozzo |
| Notable work(s) | Opera lo Schermo (?) |
| Archetype(s) | MSS Ravenna M-345/M-346 (?) |
Guido Antonio di Luca was a 15th century Italian fencing master. He seems to have lived in the parish of Santa Maria delle Muratelle,[citation needed] and his students included such great Bolognese masters as Antonio Manciolino[citation needed] and Achille Marozzo,[1] as well as such famous warriors as Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (Lodovico de Medici) and the Count Guido Rangoni.[1] Indeed, Marozzo wrote wrote of di Luca that "from his school came more warriors than from the belly of the Trojan Horse."[1] He is known to have written a fencing manual around the turn of the 16th century, which has since been lost. The anonymous Bolognese MSS Ravenna M-345/M-346 have been equated with this lost treatise by Rubboli and Cesari, but the attribution remains unconfirmed.
Additional Resources
- Rubboli, Marco and Cesari, Luca. L'Arte della Spada: Trattato di scherma dell'inizio del XVI secolo. Rome: Il Cerchio Iniziative Editoriali, 2005.
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