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• Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli
  ...vision of fencing, and is treated of its first part, which is posed in the knowledge of the sword.</p> ...rt and of nature, and more so than does knowledge, instills in us the sage knowledge of many particular details.</p>
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• Giovanni dall'Agocchie
  <p>The knowledge that since your tender years your illustrious Lordship has greatly delighte ...e owes to or can add to it; and if one has to add to the art of combat the knowledge of how to defend his own person, which is indeed its fundamental principle,
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• Salvator Fabris
  ...ons established. We wish only to say that after acquiring this inestimable knowledge a man should not become puffed up nor use it violently to the detriment of ...ach as he pleases, since in whatever position he is he will succeed by his knowledge of distances, weak and strong positions, exposed and unexposed parts. Never
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• Albrecht Dürer
  Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking ''[[Wanderjahre]]'' in which the apprentice learned
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• Marc'Antonio Pagano
  ...e evidence of the mobility of the author (or, at least, of the exchange of knowledge between Naples and the rest of Europe). ...s and from that voice that followed confusedly, whose aim was no more than common praise meshed with marvel, praising the courage, the dexterity, the force a
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• George Silver
  * ''Engliſh maiſters of defence, are profitable members in the common wealth, if they teach with ancient Engliſh weapons of true Defence, weight ...hem to stand upon school tricks and juggling gambols. Whereby it grew to a common speech among the countrymen "Bring me to a fencer, I will bring him out of
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• Joachim Meyer/Manuscript Comparison
  ...and even if one cuts a Middle or Thwart Strike, then that cut still has a common name with the High or Low Cut, then just as no Middle Cut can be made, unle | <p><small>[17]</small> Thus have I put forth a short and summary knowledge of sword-fighting and all noteworthy ''Stücken'' and also the translations
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• Fiore de'i Liberi
  ...ore” certainly existed as a real name for a man in medieval Italy—it was a common unisex medieval Christian name derived from the Italian word for flower. Al ...d the word “''Scientia''” may mean simply “knowledge”. Thus “the skill and knowledge of armed fighting”.</ref> including the art of fighting in the lists<ref>
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• Philibert de la Touche
  common good had not given me that freedom. I feared everything in my second the designs of YOUR MAJESTY, I should not hide the knowledge which
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• Henry de Sainct Didier
  ...ot worthy of such a great Monarch, but very suitable for the exercise of a common man, both in war and in peace, namely a treatise on the sword alone, mother And that at first they had no knowledge,
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• Joachim Meyer
  ...and even if one cuts a Middle or Thwart Strike, then that cut still has a common name with the High or Low Cut, then just as no Middle Cut can be made, unle ...made with hidden words by the ancients so that the art did not become too common. And about the guards, binding, shooting off, remaining, winding, chasing a
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• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 12-22
  ...events someone from defending against it. It should not be that strange if common fencers are always unsure, given that their training, not being founded on ...lse would be temerity made manifest. It is true that those who hold to the common style agree with this, except when it comes to performing the pauses which
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• Nicolaes Petter
  ...tlemen, and the techniques he taught were considered more "civilized" than common wrestling.{{cn}} ...ncy will leave one of them a master, even more if that fluency is based on knowledge. Many have left their concern to protect themselves in the best way against
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• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 1-11
  ...these Exercises. From which it is apparent that one must begin with a good knowledge of the proportion of limbs and body parts, that one may at least be able to ...ge, the two most important aspects of Training, depends absolutely on this knowledge, and because we use the sword to execute almost every move, in attack as in
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• Paulus Hector Mair
  ...beforehand publicly posted on the market-place, and thus made known to the common man. This custom is attributed by the historiographers with great praise to ...great number of fencers and rioted in Italy causing so much damage to the common man that the mayors of Rome led the whole army against them, fought them, a
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