Domingo Luis Godinho

Domingo Luis Godinho
Born	date of birth unknown
Died	after 1599
Occupation	Fencing master
Nationality	Portuguese
Movement	Esgrima común
Influences	Jaime Pons Pedro de la Torre Francisco Román
Genres	Fencing manual
Language	Spanish
Manuscript(s)	MS PBA 58 (1599)

Domingo Luis Godinho was a late 16th century Portuguese fencing master. Little is known of this master's life, but in 1599 he wrote a treatise on fencing entitled Arte de Esgrima ("On the Art of Fencing"). Although written after Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza developed the Verdadera Destreza, Godinho's terminology and techniques appear to align with surviving fragments of the esgrima común ("common fencing") of earlier Iberian masters such as Jaime Pons, Pedro de la Torre, and Francisco Román. His work also shows some similarities to the work of the French master Henry de Sainct Didier, though that is likely due to both sharing similar influences.^{[citation needed]} Arte de Esgrima contains information on sword alone, sword and shield, sword and buckler, sword and dagger, sword and cloak, double swords, and the montante.

Treatise

[Treatise]

Incomplete Translation by Tim Rivera	Transcription
Partial translation

Copyright and License Summary

For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.

Work	Author(s)	Source	License
Images
Translation
Transcription

Additional Resources

• Godinho, Luis (2015). Arte de Esgrima. Ed. by Tim Rivera and Manuel Valle Ortiz. Santiago de Compostela: AGEA Editora. ISBN 978-84-16121-26-7.
• Rivera, Tim (2016). Iberian Swordplay: Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599). Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-33-0.