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Italian fencing author active in nineteenth-century Palermo; author of the 1858 response to Blasco Florio.
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Italian count of Montechiarugolo, diplomat, courtier, poet, dramatist and philosophical writer associated with the Farnese court and the Accademia degli Innominati. Pomponio Torelli examined chivalric duty in the 1596 Trattato del debito del cavaliere.
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Perugian captain and sergeant-major-general of the militia of the Mantuan state, author of an illustrated compendium of military exercises printed at Mantua in the 1640s.
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Italian legal writer identified only as Salvatore in the surviving composite entry, associated with a Palermo memoir on the legitimacy and limits of aggravating recidivism. The surname and dates remain unresolved.
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Seventeenth-century Italian fencing master from Parma, active in Ancona, and author of `L'Esercizio della spada regolato con la perfetta idea della scherma`. His work develops ideas associated with Salvator Fabris and Ridolfo Capoferro and stands as a useful later witness to the northern Italian rapier tradition.
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Italian Renaissance writer and canon regular best known for La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo. Its anonymous German translation appeared at Frankfurt in 1619 as Allgemeiner Schauwplatz.
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Italian political writer and satirist from Loreto, active in Rome and Venice. His works used the fictional court of Apollo to comment on politics and society; the posthumous Bilancia politica assembled and altered material attributed to him and was printed in three volumes in 1678.
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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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Italian fencing master of the Bolognese Lambertini family, son of Clemente Lambertini. Vittorio Lambertini published an illustrated theoretical-practical treatise on the modern Italian school of sword and sabre in 1870 and later taught in Russia.
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