HEMA Authors and Fencing Masters

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Giovanni Battista Pigna

Italy 1530 - 1575 mid-16th century

Ferrarese man of letters, court official, historian, and political figure at the Este court. Though best known for literary and historical works, he also appears in the martial bibliography because his writings intersect with chivalric, ceremonial, and courtly culture relevant to duels, tournaments, and noble conduct.

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Giovanni Briccio

Italy 1579 - 1645

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Giovanni da Legnano

Italy 1320 - 1383 1350s-1383

Medieval jurist, university teacher, canon lawyer, diplomat, and papal vicar who became one of the most distinguished legal intellectuals of fourteenth-century Bologna. He is relevant to the duel bibliography because his writings belong to the legal and political world in which judicial combat, honour, and public order were theorized and contested.

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Giovanni Filoteo Achillini

Italy 1466 - 1538 late 15th to early 16th century

Bolognese poet, humanist, collector, and writer active in the literary culture of the Italian Renaissance. His presence in the project stems from works touching on duels, courtliness, and martial themes within the broader literary and ceremonial traditions of Bologna and northern Italy.

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Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti

Italy 1445 - 1510

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Girolamo Lucino

Italy 1589

Sixteenth-century Italian fencing master whose `Dialogo del uso della spada` belongs to the post-Agrippa rapier tradition. His treatise presents itself as a clarification and extension of Agrippa’s system while also criticizing perceived weaknesses in Giacomo di Grassi’s work, making Lucino an important witness to internal debate within late Renaissance Italian fencing.

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Giuseppe Cerri

Italy

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Giuseppe Maria Grimaldi

Italy

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Jacopo Monesi

Italy 1621-1640

Italian fencing master from Florence, active at the Medici court under Ferdinando II de' Medici, where he instructed noble pages. His `Opposizioni et Avvertimenti sopra la Scherma` is notable for its sharp critique of mathematical fencing systems, elaborate postures, and school-bound habits, in favour of direct and practical swordsmanship for earnest combat.

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Maria Salvatore Arista

Italy

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Mercurio Spezioli

Italy 1577

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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Michelangelo Jacampo

Italy

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