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'''Opera Nova''' ("A New Work") is a [[nationality::Italian|Bolognese]] [[fencing manual]] written by [[Antonio Manciolino]] and printed in ca. 1523,<ref>Leoni, Tommasso. ''The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino’s Opera Nova (1531)''. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2010. pp 11-12.</ref> and possibly the earliest printed Italian fencing treatise. Editions of the 1531 edition currently rest in the Raymond J. Lords Collection of the [[University of Massachusetts]] in Amherst, Massachusetts (USA),<ref>Call number unknown.</ref> as well as the holdings of the [[Bayerische Staatsbibliothek]] in Munich, Germany;<ref>Call number CGM 57<sup><u>n</u></sup>.</ref> the [[Bibliothèque Nationale de France]] in Paris, France;<ref>Call number R-24858.</ref> and the [[Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma]] in Rome, Italy.<ref>Call number unknown.</ref> This treatise is important as it is the earliest work currently known from the [[Filippo di Bartolomeo Dardi|Dardi]] (Bolognese) style of Italian swordsmanship.  
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'''''De re militari et de duello''''' ("On Military Affairs and on Dueling") is an [[nationality::Italian]] treatise on dueling laws and customs written by [[Paride del Pozzo]] and published in 1476.
  
 
== Publication History ==
 
== Publication History ==
  
''Opera Nova'' was printed in Venice in 1531 by [[Nicolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino]]. An earlier edition seems to have been written in 1523 and printed some time thereafter, but no copies of any such earlier printing are known to exist. There also don't seem to have been any further printings of this text until the first modern Italian translation was released in 2008; this was followed by a new edition of the original text published in 2009 by [[Steven Reich]]. In 2010, Manciolino's treatise was translated into English and published by Tommasso Leoni.
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''De re militari et de duello'' was printed in Venice in 1476 by [[Sixtus Riessinger]]. Several more editions were printed in Venice thereafter, including in 1518, 1521, 1523, 1540, and 1544.
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Also in 1544, it was translated into Spanish and published in Seville, Spain under the title ''Libro llamado batalla de dos'' ("Book Called Battle of Two"). In 1580, it was translated into English by Thomas Bedingfield and published under the title ''Questions of Honor and Arms''.
  
 
== Contents ==
 
== Contents ==

Revision as of 02:29, 8 November 2014

De re militari et de duello
Questions of Honor and Arms
Pozzo title 2.jpg
Full title Duello: libro de re imperatori, principi signori, gentil'homini, et de tutti armigeri, co[n]tinente disfide concordie, pace, casi accadenti, et iudicii con ragione essempli, et authoritate de poeti
Author(s) Paride del Pozzo
Language Italian
Publisher Sixtus Riessinger
Publication date 1476, 1518, 1521, 1523, 1525,
1530, 1536, 1540, 1544, 1560, 1580
Pages 376 pages
Treatise scans Digital scans (1544)

De re militari et de duello ("On Military Affairs and on Dueling") is an Italian treatise on dueling laws and customs written by Paride del Pozzo and published in 1476.

Publication History

De re militari et de duello was printed in Venice in 1476 by Sixtus Riessinger. Several more editions were printed in Venice thereafter, including in 1518, 1521, 1523, 1540, and 1544.

Also in 1544, it was translated into Spanish and published in Seville, Spain under the title Libro llamado batalla de dos ("Book Called Battle of Two"). In 1580, it was translated into English by Thomas Bedingfield and published under the title Questions of Honor and Arms.

Contents

Page Section
1 - 376 Treatise on duelling by Paride del Pozzo

Gallery

Title pages

1521 edition
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1523 edition
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1530 edition
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1536 edition
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1540 edition
1544 edition (Italian)
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1544 edition (Spanish)
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Additional Resources

References