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Italian military fencing master and prominent advocate of Giuseppe Radaelli’s sabre method. He taught at military institutions and published influential manuals and polemical studies.
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Bolognese fencing master active in Rome and Paris. A French translation transmitted his fencing instruction, and he later taught within the courtly milieu of Henry IV.
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Italian jurist from the Kingdom of Naples, also known in Latin as `Paridis de Puteo`. His `De duello` (1476) is a major legal and cultural source on single combat, chivalric law, and judicial duel practice in the late medieval and early Renaissance world.
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Italian general and writer on sabre fencing and the code of honour. His Codice cavalleresco italiano became one of the most successful Italian attempts to standardise duelling practice after national unification.
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Italian soldier and fencing master who taught at the Royal Naval School in Genoa and later in Florence. His 1847 treatise proposed a mixed system combining Italian and French practice.
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Neapolitan fencing professor and master at the Capece and Macedonio noble colleges, author of three works linking fencing practice with physical and geometrical reasoning.
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Italian fencing author known through works on the use of the sword and the Italian martial tradition. Exact life dates have not been established.
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Italian jurist, humanist, and emblem writer whose fame rests on legal scholarship and the extraordinarily influential `Emblemata`. Within this project he is best understood as a contextual author from the broader Renaissance learned world in which symbols of virtue, honour, civic conduct, and martial identity circulated widely.
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Seventeenth-century Italian author of Lo splendore della nobiltà napoletana, a heraldic game book organised around the five noble seats of Naples.
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Italian fencing master, head instructor and director at the central fencing school in Parma. He collaborated with Alberto Marchionni and published his own theoretical-practical treatise in 1871.
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Italian fencing master associated with Padua and founder of a gymnastics and fencing institution. He authored and promoted works on sabre and contemporary Italian fencing.
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Italian educator and historian of gymnastics, a pupil of Rudolf Obermann and the first central inspector responsible for gymnastics in the national education administration.
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