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Vincentio Saviolo

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Italy ? - 15991590s

Italian fencing master active in London in the 1590s, where he became one of the best-known exponents of rapier fencing in Elizabethan England. His `His Practise, in Two Bookes` (1595) combines technical fencing instruction with a substantial treatment of honour and quarrels.

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Authorized nameVincentio Saviolo
Sort nameSaviolo, Vincentio
Given namesVincentio
Family nameSaviolo
Birth yearUnknown
Death year1599
Floruit1590s
NationalityItaly
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Exact birth year remains uncertain; death is generally placed around 1599.

Sources: [Wiktenauer: Vincentio Saviolo](https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Vincentio_Saviolo)
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His Practise, in Two Bookes: the first intreating of the use of the Rapier and Dagger, the second of Honour and Honourable Quarrels
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