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  • ...on Iberian fencing, as well as those of his contemporary, [[Jaime Pons]], and the later [[Francisco Román]]. ...eated by the author. There are four principal guards: one at each shoulder and hip.</blockquote>
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  • ...rian fencing, as well as those of his contemporary, [[Pedro de la Torre]], and the later [[Francisco Román]]. ...or combination based on the references. Two postures are taught, one high and one low, which are also used to invite attacks.</blockquote>
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> | Illustration of single [[dagger]]
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...e of the rapier alone, rapier and dagger, rapier and cloak, and rapier and shield.
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  • ...ord and [[buckler]], sword and [[dagger]], sword and cloak, double swords, and the [[montante]].<ref name="Rivera"/> | title = Copyright and License Summary
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  • ...' aims to study and popularize (mostly) italian martial arts of Middle Age and Renaissance, especially the ancient science of fighting with blades. ...rs: humbly we go back to the texts of the ancient masters, discussing them and interpreting them to the best of our ability.
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  • ...lmaggiore on the use of the sword"), which presents itself as an expansion and clarification of the system of [[Camillo Agrippa]]. He also spends consider [[Category:Rapier and Cloak]]
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  • ...ds rapier and buckler, rapier and cloak, rapier and shield, single dagger, and mixed weapon plays. ''Libro secondo'' was first printed in Pisa in 1608 by Giovanni Fontanini and dedicated to Christofano Chigi, a Knight of Malta. The print run seems to h
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  • ..., sword and [[shield]], sword and cloak, [[greatsword]], [[pole weapons]], and [[grappling]]. == Copyright and License Summary ==
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  • ...ranslation|https://gilbertdewolghop.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/books-to-read-and-formats-designed-for-reading/}} ...amous masters [[Giovanni dall'Agocchie]], [[Angelo Viggiani dal Montone]], and [[Mercurio Spezioli]] were also influenced by his teachings, though it is u
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...its present form; there are probably missing pages from the introduction, and it ends with only one half of an intended play of the pike.
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...he 15th century that share the same art style and cover the same material, and is the manuscript for which the complex is named.
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  • ...artistic circles, where he was acquainted with Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and the great artist Michelangelo. ...ed a unique new system of swordsmanship based on his knowledge of geometry and mechanics.
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  • ...only remnant a 20th century tracing, but it recently resurfaced at auction and was purchased by the [[Museo dell'Arte Marziale]]. | Compendium of the Philosophy and Skill at Arms, reduced to its simplicity and directed to Don Juan Ferdinando, Baron of Grünburg, by his fencing master
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> | [[Long shield]] dueling by [[Hans Talhoffer]]
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  • ...tine fencing tradition of [[Francesco di Sandro Altoni]]. Docciolini wrote and published a fencing manual in 1601 entitled ''[[Trattato in Materia di Sche ...brother Giovanfrancesco di Bernardo di Marco Docciolini (who died in 1587) and other family members.<ref> Docciolini, Marco. ''Trattato di scherma'' Edite
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  • ...various types of weapon".<ref name="Castiglione">Castiglione, Baldassarre, and Opdyke, Leonard Eckstein. ''[http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofcourtier00 ...fts or later translations) is unclear. Unfortunately, despite his prestige and the extent of his writings, Monte's teachings don't seem to have had any im
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  • ...t made light of people in medieval society, for instance farmers, priests, and the bourgeoisie) in the same style as Hans Rosenplüt, but with more subtle ...Hans Folz (MS Q.566)|MS Q.566]]. This section includes both unique content and a jumbled rendition of [[H. Beringer]]'s [[Recital]].
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  • | subtitle = [[title::Great Representation of the Art and Use of Fencing]] | publisher = [[Salvestro Marchetti]] and [[Camillo Turi]]{{#set:publisher=Salvestro Marchetti|publisher=Camillo Turi
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...he 15th century that share the same art style and cover the same material, and it seems to have created in the same workshop as the [[Gladiatoria (MS U860
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  • ...nd verbs, with few exceptions. The translations chosen are very deliberate and, I hope, will provide a clearer understanding of the section. ..."stab", "thrust", "pin", and "drive". The word "Ittem" appears quite a lot and is mostly used to itemise different points but is occasionally better serve
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  • ...the highborn lord Duke Ludwig, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Lower and Upper Bavaria, I, Master Paulus Kal, an exponent of the art, have made this | <p>Here begins the art that Liechtenauer has created with his fellowship and applied with all knightly weapons. May God have mercy on him.</p>
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  • ...rtigiana in the 2nd book. The 3rd book contains the play of the half sword and presses (grappling) among other items. ...die, as will happen to me in time. [Therefore I write] so that my efforts and my sleepless nights may benefit many people, indeed I have wished to share
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  • ...and raise your spear [with the right hand] for a powerful downward thrust and see where you might hit him easiest.</p> ...with a strong blow. And when you deflect his thrust, aim for his left foot and thrust with force, using both hands.</p>
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  • ...e ''Chronik der Fechtbruderschaft'' lists him as Captain in 1502 and 1504, and does not mention a new Captain until 1508. There is no indication of who he ...ugh in both cases with considerable alteration and elaboration by Falkner, and several short sections on other weapons which appear to be entirely origina
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  • ...in nature and was most likely a summary or copy of other works both extant and lost. The author does not cite other authors within the body of the text it The text of ''Jāmiʿ al-funūn'' is by and large more classical in nature with a great deal of dialectal, Egyptian Ara
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...he 15th century that share the same art style and cover the same material, and it seems to be the oldest member of the group.
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> | Material = Paper, with a contemporary wood and <br/>leather binding
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  • | <p>{{red|b=1|He writes [the words] from his mouth and becomes black.}}</p> ...rding to this shape using metal work, and with a shield, as is drawn here, and those who fight on this, they should have weapons as is painted here.</p>
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> | Material = Paper, in a wood and leather binding
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...gegangene- Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung 01.03.2010]</ref> but it was recovered and seems to have been undamaged.<ref>Personal report from one of the salvage w
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  • | wiktenauer compilation by=[[Michael Chidester]] and<br/>[[Dierk Hagedorn]] <!-----Form and content----->
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  • ...tury (or possibly the last decade of the 14th), he dictated a [[gloss]] on and expansion of the teachings of the grand master [[Johannes Liechtenauer]], i ...eted and exists in only one manuscript. It is the work of a single scribe, and Ondřej Vodička indicates that it was probably dictated directly to the sc
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...lier treatises in the [[Bauman Fechtbuch (Cod.I.6.4º.2)|Bauman Fechtbuch]] and the [[Glasgow Fechtbuch (MS E.1939.65.341)|Glasgow Fechtbuch]], making it p
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...s Talhoffer]].<ref>Dated 1443 on [[Page:MS Chart.A.558 001r.jpg|folio 1r]] and 1448 on [[Page:MS Chart.A.558 018r.jpg|18r]].</ref> The original currently
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  • ...of these masters remain unknown, the several wrote treatises of their own and Kal's list stands as an independent confirmation of their connection to the ...s listed as a guest at the wedding of Ludwig's son Georg,<ref name="JPK"/> and continued in the duke's service until his death on 18 January 1479. Paulus
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  • ...Orbassano, Santa Brigida, and Staffarda) and ultimately became an officer and color guard; for his valor he gained the title ''Alfier Lombardo'' ("the Pr ...man and embarked on another international journey through France, Holland, and England, eventually exhausting all of the wealth he had acquired.<ref name=
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...ists of two (or possibly three) distinct treatises, based on the art style and the handwriting; the first two sections likely date to the 1470s, while the
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  • ...rt and he also names two older masters in his tradition, [[Johane Suveno]] and [[Nicholai de Toblem]]; it is possible that either or both of those masters ...nd polearm material is all more or less consistent across both traditions, and the explanatory text, though unconnected to that of Fiore, demonstrates a s
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  • ...entral Italy,<ref name="Terminiello 9">Terminiello et al. 2013, p 9.</ref> and only later became a citizen of Venice.<ref>That he eventually became a Vene ...treatise is structured as a series of progressively more complex lessons, and Tom Leoni opines that this treatise is the best pedagogical work on rapier
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  • ...S 1825]] (1460s), [[Paulus Kal Fechtbuch (Cgm 1507)|Cgm 1570]] (ca. 1470), and [[Paulus Kal Fechtbuch (MS KK5126)|MS KK5126]] (1480s).</ref> but there is ...MS M.I.29)|Codex Speyer]] contains a guide to converting between [[sword]] and [[Messer]] techniques written by a "Magister [[Andreas]]",<ref name="Speyer
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  • ...s known about this master's life; he seems to have been Bolognese by birth and he may have been a student of [[Guido Antonio di Luca]],{{cn}} the Bolognes ...lomeo Dardi|Dardi]] or "Bolognese" school of swordsmanship.<ref>Both Dardi and Luca are thought to have published treatises in the 15th century that have
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...e'i Liberi]], given that his works include considerable overlap in artwork and technique, but it is equally possible that they represent a separate transm
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...Guido Antonio di Luca]], the master who taught both [[Antonio Manciolino]] and [[Achille Marozzo]], but this attribution has yet to receive popular suppor
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  • | {{red|b=1|Y}}Oung knight learn onward,<br/>&emsp;For god have love, and ladies, honor, | Till your honor is earned,<br/>&emsp;Practice chivalry, and learn,
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  • | first printed edition= Porzio and Mele, 2002 ...m between 1482 and 1487,<ref name=Rubboli>[[Marco Rubboli|Rubboli, Marco]] and [[Luca Cesari|Cesari, Luca]]. ''[[:File:The_Knightly_Art_of_Combat_of_Filip
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  • ...om book lists, I put together this list of transcriptions and translations and such available through the site. I'll update it as things come to my attent ...en/us/shop/cory-winslow-and-christian-trosclair-and-christian-henry-tobler-and-thomas-stoeppler/the-recital-of-the-chivalric-art-of-fencing-of-the-grand-m
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  • ...Wrath Strike) with the left foot forward. Then follow after with the right and hit him strongly from above to the left side. If he deflects this, then str ...sword well up over your head, spring with your right foot to his left side and cut him with the Zwirchhaw (Across Strike) to the head.
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  • ...n about the life of this master, but he describes himself as a Freifechter and the contents of his book make it clear that he was associated with the trad ...ded here for reference, but the Egenolff illustrations (which are original and not based on Paurenfeyndt) are the ones that seem to depict something simil
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  • ...apparently traveled around Italy observing the teachings of other schools and masters. ...an admirer named Thomas Churchyard, who hired I.&nbsp;G. to translated it and I.&nbsp;Iaggard to publish it.
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  • ...fechter Zedel'' for the sword&mdash;though this is also found in the 1570, and is in essence a rewrite of Part Two of the Munich's sword section. ...ch (and his footnotes are preserved in the translation to note his ideas), and I discovered others as I made this concordance.
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  • ...n [[armored fencing]] (both with the short sword and unarmed), [[dagger]], and [[mounted fencing]]. ...]], while that of [[Andre Lignitzer]] is credited to Huntsfeld.<ref>Jaquet and Walczak 2014.</ref>
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  • ...to have been born in the town of Cagli in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, and was a resident of Siena, Tuscany. Little is known about the life of this ma ...encing historians, it is neither comprehensive nor particularly innovative and does not seem to have been influential in its own time.
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  • | David and Buppellin vom Stain ...ade his living teaching, including training people for [[martial dueling]] and [[trial by combat]].
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  • ...mulates, that one is obliged to fight, especially regarding several causes and articles which are written down hereafter. ...would have at dueling with such a comrade, indeed he is within his rights and may well-fight him if he would. Thus dueling is wantonness.
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  • | '''Capitolo 36. That denotes Sword and Dagger.''' ...that I have a good imagination and I have harvested the parries more brief and more useful for one who must combat.
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  • ...t that is confirmed in the tax records of Augsburg, Germany in 1501, 1504, and 1516.{{cn}} ...er von Danzig gloss which [[Gregor Erhart]] attributes to one [[Nicolaüs]] and dates to 1489.<ref>[[Gregor Erhart Fechtbuch (MS E.1939.65.354)|MS E.1939.6
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  • ...c, Free Art of the Fencer"), which offered a history of the art of fencing and the Marxbrüder guild, as well as advice to students of the art. | title = Title and Dedication
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...e'i Liberi]], given that his works include considerable overlap in artwork and technique, but it is equally possible that they represent a separate transm
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  • <!----------Form and content----------> ...ord and [[buckler]], sword and [[dagger]], sword and cloak, double swords, and the [[montante]].
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  • ...which shows a clear relationship to the 1570 treatise of [[Joachim Meÿer]] and the 1611 treatise of [[Michael Hundt]]; it was printed in Frankfurt an Main ...on of Swordfighting in which''' a man can well (learn) the sword divisions and from these the positions or guards.
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  • ...ns Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it.</p> ...rd in friendly and in serious combat<br/>By means of that you frighten<br/>and edify skillfully the masters}}</p>
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  • | first printed edition= Knight and Hunt, 2008 ...retary to the Augsburg City Council; by 1541, Mair was the city treasurer, and in 1545 he also took on the office of Master of Rations.
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  • ...=1|Here begins the epitome on the knightly art of combat that was composed and created by Johannes Liechtenauer, who was a great master in the art, God ha ...t everyone will grasp and understand it, as you will find described below. And he has done this on account of frivolous fight masters who mistake the art
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  • ...n rapier fencing. In addition to his fencing practice, Meyer was a Burgher and a master cutler.<ref name="Naumann">Naumann, Robert. ''Serapeum.'' Vol. 5. ...wever, apparent in the rapier illustrations of his 1561 manuscript and the dagger plays in his book.</ref>
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  • ...e contents have not been systematically checked for accuracy, consistency, and currentness. ...kunst term; T = temporal term; W = weapon term; S = spatial term; B = body and armor parts
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  • ...ccomplished swordsman. Silver is described as a gentleman in his treatise, and the fencing historian Aylward claims that he was eleventh in descent from S ...fence him at ten weapons, beginning with the single rapier and rapier and dagger, which suggests that Silver had at least a passing familiarity with those w
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  • ...ns Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it.</p> ...Duke Philip, Count Palatine of Rhein, Arch-Cup-bearer and Prince Elector, and Duke in Bavaria.</p>
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  • ...VI von Eyb]] was a powerful noble in service to Philip from 1499 to 1504 (and possibly longer), but his writings demonstrate no connection to or awarenes ...is teachings are organized in a similar fashion using similar terminology, and often his [[Recital]] (''Zettel'') is often nearly identical to that of Lie
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  • ...sur l'espée seule]]'' ("Secrets of the Premier Book on the Single Sword") and printed on 4 June 1573, is known to survive; it seems likely that the other ...become a skillful noble and disciples of Mars; written for the art, order, and practice.
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  • ...ruction and Mathematics of the Circle; Concerning the Sword: Proper Length and Introduction. ...oportions of the body, their relationship to the dimensions of our Circle, and the proper length of the sword.
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