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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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Milanese nobleman, jurist and writer on chivalric honour who was frequently called to mediate disputes among nobles. His Discorsi and Consigli cavallereschi became prominent seventeenth-century treatments of peace-making, precedence and the point of honour.
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Italian doctor of law from the Jacobilli family of Foligno, author of a chivalric work and a seventeenth-century fencing compendium.
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Italian baron, lawyer and scholar of duelling. He co-authored Bibliografia del duello with Jacopo Gelli and assembled a specialist collection later donated to the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
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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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Italian lawyer and fencing writer, described as a student at the University of Pisa when his Breve trattato di scherma alla sciabola appeared in 1863. He later wrote on duelling law and practice.
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Italian painter, musician, playwright and prolific writer known under the forms Bricci, Briccio and Brizio. Giovanni Briccio wrote popular theatre and practical or moral prose, including advice on defending oneself in dangerous encounters.
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Italian jurist, notary and public official from Ravenna who served papal and southern Italian administrations. His writings include twenty-two consilia on duelling and broader works on military, maritime and fiscal law.
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Italian fencing master active in Milan and author of illustrated theoretical-practical treatises on two-handed stick fighting and sabre fencing.
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Italian fencing master associated with Ferrara and identified on his 1856 treatise as master of the Papal Hunters Battalion. He wrote on sabre handling and a mixed counterpoint school.
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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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Milanese fencing master and leading nineteenth-century reformer of Italian sabre fencing. His method, promoted through military teaching and the manuals written by Settimo Del Frate, became internationally influential.
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