Libro secondo (Nicoletto Giganti)

Libro secondo di Niccoletto Giganti
The Second Book of Niccoletto Giganti
Author(s)	Nicoletto Giganti
Dedicated to	Christofano Chigi
Place of origin	Pisa
Language	Italian
Genre(s)	Fencing manual
Publisher	Giovanni Fontanini
Publication date	1608
Pages	123

Libro secondo di Niccoletto Giganti ("Second Book of Niccoletto Giganti") is an Italian fencing manual written by Nicoletto Giganti and printed in 1608. It builds on the teachings in his first book, and adds rapier and buckler, rapier and cloak, rapier and shield, single dagger, and mixed weapon plays.

Publication History

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 have been small, given that copies quickly became so rare that as early as the 1670s bibliographers expressed doubt that it ever existed.

In 2013, it was translated into English by Piermarco Terminiello and published by Fox Spirit Books under the title The 'Lost' Second Book of Nicoletto Giganti (1608).

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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.

• Giganti, Nicoletto (2013). The 'Lost' Second Book of Nicoletto Giganti (1608): A Rapier Fencing Treatise. Trans. by Piermarco Terminiello and Joshua Pendragon. Vulpes. ISBN 978-1909348318.

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