Libro de las Grandezas de la Espada (Luis Pacheco de Narváez)

Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada
A Book on the Greatness of the Sword
Title page from the 1605 edition
Author(s)	Luis Pacheco de Narváez
Dedicated to	King Don Felipe III
Place of origin	Madrid, Spain
Language	Spanish
Genre(s)	Fencing manual
Publisher	Herederos de I. Iniguez de Lequérica
Publication date	1600, 1605
Pages	658 pages
Treatise scans	Digital scans (1605) B&W photocopy (1600) B&W photocopy (1605)

Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada ("A Book on the Greatness of the Sword") is a Spanish fencing manual written by Luis Pacheco de Narváez and initially printed in 1600. Pacheco's rapier manual carried on the tradition of La Verdadera Destreza begun in the 1560s by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza.

Publication History

Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada was first printed in Madris, Spain in 1600 by the Herederos de I. Iniguez de Lequérica. A second edition was printed in 1605.

Contents

1r - 219v	Rapier by Luis Pacheco de Narváez

Additional Resources

The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.

• Fallows, Noel (2012). "Masters of Fear or Masters of Arms? Jerónimo de Carranza, Luis Pacheco de Narváez and the Martial Arts Treatises of Renaissance Spain." The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe 1520-1630: 218-235. Ed. by Tobias Capwell. London: Paul Holberton. ISBN 978-0-900785-43-6.
• Sánchez García, Darío (2022). "Analysis of footwork diagrams from Libro de las grandezas de la espada." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 10(1): 73-96. doi:10.36950/apd-2022-005.

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