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Italian author of a practical late nineteenth-century manual on sword and sabre fencing that also includes historical remarks on weapons and principal rules of duelling. He represents the phase in which fencing manuals increasingly combined technical instruction with historical framing and explicit duel-related guidance.
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Seventeenth-century Italian fencing master associated with the Neapolitan tradition and remembered above all for `La Scherma illustrata` and its continuation. His books are important witnesses to the later Italian development of rapier play and to the diffusion of southern Italian fencing methods in print.
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Bolognese soldier and fencing author associated with the late sixteenth-century Italian martial world. His `Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii` places him among the writers who combined fencing with broader aristocratic and military exercises, and his career connected him with both active soldiering and courtly intellectual circles.
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Italian fencing master of the Roman Marcelli family and author of the celebrated `Regole della scherma`, published in 1686. He stands as the best-documented later representative of a Roman fencing lineage whose methods influenced later Italian swordplay and preserved a distinct family-based school tradition.
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Italian fencing master and soldier active in the early seventeenth century, linked to the courtly environment of Savoy. His `Arte di Maneggiar la Spada a Piedi et a Cavallo` and `Discorso del Tornear a Piedi` show the close relationship between fencing, horsemanship, tournament culture, and aristocratic martial display.
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Sicilian fencing author associated with the later seventeenth-century southern Italian tradition. His `Trattato della scherma Siciliana` places him within the broader Neapolitan and insular Italian development of rapier and swordplay theory during a period of strong regional schools and lineages.
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Italian humanist, translator, editor, and literary figure associated with the world of vernacular learning, commentary, and Renaissance print culture. He enters the project as a contextual author whose work intersects the broader intellectual environment in which martial, chivalric, and gentlemanly texts circulated.
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