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Sixteenth-century Italian fencing master linked to Bologna and originally from Fermo. His `Capitolo` on fencing and horsemanship belongs to the transitional literature of late sixteenth-century Italian swordsmanship and reflects the continuing prestige of side-sword and mounted martial instruction.
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Italian writer whose anti-duelling study Il duello e la moderna civiltà appeared in 1870 and in a substantially enlarged edition in 1879.
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Michele Gambogi is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Trattato sulla scherma” (1837). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian military gymnastics instructor and pioneer of physical education in southern Italy. Niccolò Abbondati wrote a wide-ranging gymnastics and fencing method for the infantry of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founded a gymnastics school in Terra di Lavoro.
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Orafo da Cremona is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Discorso del Gioco di Spada” (1600). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Sienese humanist, grammarian and writer who became reader of humanities at the University of Siena in 1598. His Gioiello di sapienza, including material on arms and honour, was published posthumously in 1618.
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Ferrarese academic, civic secretary, and man of letters deeply involved in the cultural life of seventeenth-century Ferrara. He is relevant here chiefly through printed relations of tournaments and festive martial spectacles, which connect him to the ceremonial and performative side of noble combat culture.
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Paolo Capodivacca is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Massime et Avvertimenti da praticarsi nella scherma” (1704). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian cleric and writer, later a deputy for Rome in the French Corps législatif, author of the anti-duelling treatise translated into French in 1783 as De l’énormité du duel.
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Roman fencing master credited with the discourse on fighting with the single sword appended to Girolamo Cavalcabò’s treatise in Jacques de Villamont’s French translation. He was already described as deceased in the 1595 edition.
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Italian jurist, criminologist, professor and politician who wrote on legal and social means of suppressing the duel.
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Italian artillery officer and fencing author who co-wrote La scienza della scherma with Giuseppe Rosaroll Scorza; the treatise became a foundational statement of the Neapolitan school.
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