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Italian army colonel, writer, fencing historian and bibliographer; organizer of the permanent court of honour in Florence.
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Sicilian fencing theorist active in Catania in the mid-nineteenth century. His writings treated fencing as a science and addressed its philosophical, tactical and social dimensions.
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Catanese fencing professor associated with the Collegio Cutelli and author of an extensive corpus on fencing theory, terminology, pedagogy and self-instruction.
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Italian fencing master from Padua whose `Scienza d'Arme` became one of the most influential rapier treatises in Europe. Fabris worked at the Danish court under Christian IV, and his teachings profoundly shaped German fencing through translations, reprints, and the work of later masters influenced by him.
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Paduan fencing master and arms instructor of the Accademia Delia. His richly illustrated works on the flag, pike, sword and two-handed sword form an important seventeenth-century Italian fencing corpus.
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Friulian fencing master, born between about 1340 and 1350, who taught at the Este court and composed the illustrated Flos duellatorum in 1409. Exact birth and death years remain unknown.
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Italian man of letters, courtier, political writer, and controversialist, also known as `Giustinopolitano`. His `Il Duello` (1550) made him one of the most important sixteenth-century authors on honour and single combat, placing him at the center of the wider literary and moral discourse around duelling rather than purely technical fence instruction.
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Italian-born fencing master who settled in Britain and became one of the most celebrated teachers of small-sword fencing in eighteenth-century London. His school helped define the fashionable Anglo-French school tradition, and his name became inseparable from the development of modern sportive fencing culture.
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Italian soldier and fencing master associated with Venice and the wider Italian rapier tradition. His `Scola, overo teatro` (1606) and second book of 1608 are highly regarded pedagogical texts and played a major role in the dissemination of seventeenth-century rapier fencing.
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Bolognese fencing master who completed a dialogue on single-sword fencing shortly before his death. His brother Battista preserved it for posthumous publication as Lo Schermo.
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Italian mathematician, engineer, architect, and fencing theorist active in the second half of the sixteenth century. His `Trattato di scientia d'arme` (1553) is a landmark in rapier fencing history because it reorganized fencing around geometric reasoning, simplified guards, and strongly influenced later Italian and French traditions.
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Neapolitan nobleman and riding master whose Gli ordini di cavalcare, first published in 1550, became one of the most influential early-modern European works on horsemanship.
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