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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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Italian author active in the early nineteenth century, represented by an elementary fencing treatise and works on horsemanship and equestrian practice.
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Neapolitan soldier, general and military author Giuseppe Rosaroll, who used his mother’s surname Scorza. With Pietro Grisetti he published the 1803 fencing manual La scienza della scherma and later wrote works on the bayonet and broad sword.
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Italian fencing master and author of a sequence of theoretical and practical lessons on swordsmanship published between 1835 and 1853.
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Venetian engineer, soldier, journalist, writer and parliamentarian Paulo Fambri. His broad interest in military culture included works on duelling jurisprudence, honour and martial gymnastics.
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Italian fencing master from Cagli, active in Siena and best known for the influential rapier treatise Gran simulacro dell’arte e dell’uso della scherma, first printed in 1610.
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Italian cavalry officer and military fencing author who recorded and disseminated Giuseppe Radaelli’s system of sabre and sword instruction for use by the Italian army.
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Italian author active at Messina, documented by a three-book chivalric treatise of 1629 and a 1637 discourse on the 1636 foot tournament of the Cavalieri della Stella.
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Italian Jesuit, papal diplomat, controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer from Mantua. Antonio Possevino also participated in the publication history of works on honour and duelling associated with his brother Giovanni Battista.
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Bolognese senator, diplomat and writer on chivalric honour, author of La spada di honore (1671). The later Scettro pacifico forms the second part of his observations and appeared posthumously.
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Seventeenth-century Ferrarese jurist, knight and military theorist. His illustrated Oplomachia treated the pike, halberd and musket, while Il Torneo documented tournament organisation, weapon drills and early printed military music.
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Sixteenth-century Italian writer on honour, peace-making and the legal regulation of duels. Dario Attendolo published Il duello at Venice in 1560 and a related discourse on resolving quarrels and injuries peacefully.
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