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| name                 = [[name::Federico Ghisliero]]
| name                 = Die Zettel
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| full title           = A Recital on the Chivalric<br/>Art of Fencing
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| deathdate            = 1619
| author(s)            =  
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| deathplace          = Turino
| ascribed to           = [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]
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| occupation          = [[occupation::Soldier]]
| compiled by          =  
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| nationality         =  
| illustrated by        = Unknown
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| patron                =  
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| citizenship          = Bologna
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| language              = [[Middle High German]]
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| patron              =  
| date                  = Fourteenth century (?)
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| [[Fencing manual]]
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| [[Wrestling manual]]
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| movement            =
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| influences          = {{plainlist
| archetype(s)          = Hypothetical
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  | [[Camillo Agrippa]]
| manuscript(s)        = {{collapsible list
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  | [[Giovanni dall'Agocchie]] (?)
| [[Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a)|MS 3227a]] (ca. 1400s)
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  | [[Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza]] (?)
| [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (MS Chart.A.558)|MS Chart.A.558]] (1443)
 
| [[Codex Danzig (Cod.44.A.8)|Cod.44.A.8]] (1452)
 
  | [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (MS Thott.290.2º)|MS Thott.290.2º]] (1459)
 
  | [[Wolfenbüttel Sketchbook (Cod.Guelf.78.2 Aug.2º)|Cod.Guelf.78.2 Aug.2º]] (ca. 1465-80)
 
  | [[Paulus Kal Fechtbuch (Cgm 1507)|Cgm 1507]] (ca.1470)
 
| [[Paulus Kal Fechtbuch (MS KK5126)|MS KK5126]] (1480s)
 
| [[Codex Speyer (MS M.I.29)|MS M.I.29]] (1491)
 
| [[Johan Liechtnawers Fechtbuch geschriebenn (MS Dresd.C.487)|MS Dresd.C.487]] (ca. 1504-19)
 
| [[Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)|MS Germ.Quart.2020]] (1510-20)
 
| [[Oplodidaskalia sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232)|MS 26-232]] (1512)
 
| [[Jörg Wilhalm Hutters kunst zu Augspurg (Cgm 3711)|Cgm 3711]] (1523)
 
| [[Hutter/Sollinger Fechtbuch (Cod.I.6.2º.2)|Cod.I.6.2º.2]] (1523)
 
| [[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|Reichsstadt Nr. 82]] (1553)
 
| [[Lienhart Sollinger Fechtbuch (Cgm 3712)|Cgm 3712]] (1556)
 
| [[Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss (MS Var.82)|MS Varia 82]] (1563-71)
 
| [[Künnst zu fechten vonn dem Lienhartt Sollinger (Cod.Guelf.38.21 Aug.2º)|Cod.Guelf.38.21 Aug.2º]] (1588)
 
 
}}
 
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| genre                = [[Fencing manual]]
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| language            = [[language::Italian]]
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| notableworks        = ''[[Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii (Federico Ghisliero)|Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii]]'' (1587)
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| archetype            =
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| manuscript(s)        = M.A.M. Ghisliero MS (1585)
 
| principal manuscript(s)=
 
| principal manuscript(s)=
| first printed edition = [[Christian Henry Tobler|Tobler]], 2010
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| first printed edition=  
| wiktenauer compilation by=[[Michael Chidester]]
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| wiktenauer compilation by=
| translations          = {{collapsible list
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| {{French translation|http://ardamhe.free.fr/biblio/Tetraptyque.pdf|1}}
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| signature            =  
| {{German translation|http://www.hammaborg.de/en/transkriptionen/peter_von_danzig/index.php|1}}
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| translations        =
| {{Hungarian translation|Johannes Liechtenauer/Hungarian|2}}
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| below                =  
| {{Slovenian translation|http://scholapugnatoria.si/?page_id{{=}}267|1}}
 
| {{Spanish translation|http://www.aveh.eu/documentos/EdadMedia/TETRAPTICOV.pdf|1}}
 
 
}}
 
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'''Federico Ghisliero''' (Ghislieri; d. 1619) was a Bolognese soldier and fencer. Little is know about his early life, but he came from a Bolognese family and studied fencing under [[Silvio Piccolomini]]. He lead a long military career that included serving under the famous commander Alessandro, Duke of Parma, in Flanders in 1582. He was also a friend of Galileo Galilei and a prolific writer, though unfortunately most of his writings were destroyed in a fire at the University of Turin in 1904.
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'''Johannes Liechtenauer''' (Hans Lichtenauer, Lichtnawer) was a German [[fencing master]] in the 14th or 15th century. No direct record of his life or teachings currently exists, and all that we know of both comes from the writings of other masters and scholars. The only account of his life was written by the anonymous author of the [[Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a)|Nuremberg Hausbuch]], one of the oldest texts in the tradition, who stated that "Master Liechtenauer learnt and mastered the Art in a thorough and rightful way, but he did not invent and put together this Art (as was just stated). Instead, he traveled and searched many countries with the will of learning and mastering this rightful and true Art." He may have been alive at the time of the creation of the fencing treatise contained in the Nuremberg Hausbuch, as that source is the only one to fail to accompany his name with a blessing for the dead.
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In 1587, he published a fencing treatise called ''[[Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii (Federico Ghisliero)|Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii]]'' ("Rules for Many Knightly Exercises"); two versions of the book exist, and it's unclear which was created first. One is dedicated to Antonio Pio Bonello, a well-known soldier and distant relative of Ghisliero, and the other to Ranuccio Farnese, who was 18 years old at the time and Alessandro's heir.
  
Liechtenauer was described by many later masters as the "high master" or "grand master" of the art, and a long poem called the ''Zettel'' ("Recital") is generally attributed to him by these masters. Later masters in the tradition often wrote extensive [[gloss]]es (commentaries) on this poem, using it to structure their own martial teachings. Liechtenauer's influence on the German fencing tradition as we currently understand it is almost impossible to overstate. The masters on [[Paulus Kal]]'s roll of the [[Fellowship of Liechtenauer]] were responsible for most of the most significant fencing manuals of the 15th century, and Liechtenauer and his teachings were also the focus of the German fencing guilds that arose in the 15th and 16th centuries, including the [[Marxbrüder]] and the [[Veiterfechter]].
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Ghisliero's treatise is notable for his use of geometry in relation to fencing, using concentric circles centered on where the fencer has placed most of their weight (often, but not always, the back foot), and sometimes including multiple versions of each figure in an illustration to show the progression of the movements he describes. He also seems to be the first author to reference the ''Vitruvian Man'' in a fencing treatise. However, his treatise is unique in that it was printed without any illustrations at all, and they had to be drawn in by hand. It's unclear whether this indicates that he intended to have printing plates made but was unable to do so, or that his plan from the start was to have the books vary based on how much art each buyer was willing to pay for.
  
Additional facts have sometimes been presumed about Liechtenauer based on often-problematic premises. The Nuremberg Hausbuch, often erroneously dated to 1389 and presumed to be written by a direct student of Liechtenauer's, has been treated as evidence placing Liechtenauer's career in the mid-1300s. However, given that the Nuremberg Hausbuch may date as late as 1494 and the earliest records of the identifiable members of his tradition appear in the early 1400s, it seems more probable that Liechtenauer's career occurred toward the beginning of the 15th century. Ignoring the Nuremberg Hausbuch as being of indeterminate date, the oldest version of the Recital appears in the [[Modus Dimicandi (MS G.B.f.18.a)|MS G.B.f.18.a]], dating to ca. 1418-28 and attributed to an [[H. Beringer]], which both conforms to this timeline and suggests the possibility that Liechtenauer was himself an inheritor of the teaching rather than its original composer (presentations of the Recital that are entirely unattributed exist in other 15th and 16th century manuscripts).
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Ghisliero died in Turino in 1619.
  
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Latest revision as of 00:51, 29 March 2024

Federico Ghisliero
Died 1619
Turino
Occupation Soldier
Citizenship Bologna
Influences
Genres Fencing manual
Language Italian
Notable work(s) Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii (1587)
Manuscript(s) M.A.M. Ghisliero MS (1585)

Federico Ghisliero (Ghislieri; d. 1619) was a Bolognese soldier and fencer. Little is know about his early life, but he came from a Bolognese family and studied fencing under Silvio Piccolomini. He lead a long military career that included serving under the famous commander Alessandro, Duke of Parma, in Flanders in 1582. He was also a friend of Galileo Galilei and a prolific writer, though unfortunately most of his writings were destroyed in a fire at the University of Turin in 1904.

In 1587, he published a fencing treatise called Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii ("Rules for Many Knightly Exercises"); two versions of the book exist, and it's unclear which was created first. One is dedicated to Antonio Pio Bonello, a well-known soldier and distant relative of Ghisliero, and the other to Ranuccio Farnese, who was 18 years old at the time and Alessandro's heir.

Ghisliero's treatise is notable for his use of geometry in relation to fencing, using concentric circles centered on where the fencer has placed most of their weight (often, but not always, the back foot), and sometimes including multiple versions of each figure in an illustration to show the progression of the movements he describes. He also seems to be the first author to reference the Vitruvian Man in a fencing treatise. However, his treatise is unique in that it was printed without any illustrations at all, and they had to be drawn in by hand. It's unclear whether this indicates that he intended to have printing plates made but was unable to do so, or that his plan from the start was to have the books vary based on how much art each buyer was willing to pay for.

Ghisliero died in Turino in 1619.

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