Roberto Gotti

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Bio from AIMA Roma 2020 site:

Maestro Roberto Gotti starts his research and practise of the historical european martial arts in late '90s. He publishes articles and books on ancient weapons and martial art, and he has been invited for years now as instructor in the biggest HEMA national and international events.

He is founder and deputy-president of AIMA, for which he wrote the Renaissance longsword manual; he's the President of SPADA, society for promotion of the art of the arms. He is member of the FIS (Italian Fencing Federation) Working Group and member of the National Committee for HEMA examination.

He won the 2016 CSEN longsword championship as an Athlete, and the 2017 and 2018 ones as instructor. Founder and Curator of MAM, Museum of Martial Art, he organized many stable and travelling exhibitions with it, showing martial art and its weapons, allowing hundred of practitioners to handle ancient weapons and read through ancient books and manuscripts.

He invented Gairethnix, Sala d'Arme degli Erranti, first European center dedicated to the daily practice of olympic fencing and HEMA, where those disciplines are inserted in a museum showcase with more than 2000 items, from ancient printed treatises and manuscripts, swords, polearms and many objects related to the western art of the sword.

Wiktenauer contributions

None.

Publications

Roberto Gotti has produced or contributed to the following books and journal articles.

Author

• Gotti, Roberto; Daniel Jaquet (2016). "Two late flying prints informing on the artist involved in the Opera Nova of Achille Marozzo and on the date of an original (lost) edition?." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(1): 213-220. doi:10.1515/apd-2016-0007.
• Gotti, Roberto (2023). "The Dynamic Sphere: Thesis on the Third State of the Vitruvian Man." Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: 93-147. Ed. by Daniel Jaquet; Hing Chao and Loretta Kim. Springer.