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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 priest, historian, archivist and librarian to the Este court. A foundational scholar of medieval Italy, Muratori published large documentary collections and also addressed private peace-making and the history and use of duelling.
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Italian lawyer and author of two Venetian prose-and-verse compositions on the sword, fencing and gladiators.
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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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Roman wool merchant, fencing master and writer known for Il cavaliere compito (Viterbo, 1609) and a related fencing text recorded in 1610.
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Italian physician-surgeon and fencing master of the Neapolitan school, born at Scordia on 28 May 1845. Vincenzo Bellini wrote the 1881 Manuale del duello and the illustrated 1882 sabre treatise La sciabola.
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Italian fencing master from Bologna and one of the central figures of the Bolognese school. He is chiefly known for `Opera Nova` (1536), one of the most important Renaissance Italian fight books, covering sword alone and with companion weapons, polearms, dagger, and judicial combat traditions.
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Italian jurist from Capua whose Latin Tractatus de duello examined the legal and ecclesiastical regulation of duelling, including the decrees of the Council of Trent and the constitution of Clement VIII.
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Italian soldier and fencing master from Lucca, serving as ensign in the fortress of Bergamo and author of `Nuovo et brieve modo di schermire`. He belongs to the Agrippa-influenced rapier current of the later sixteenth century and is especially useful for tracing the adaptation of geometric or rationalized swordplay within northern Italian martial culture.
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Angelo Coelli is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Il duello attraverso i secoli” (1904). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Seventeenth-century Italian political and martial writer associated with L’Aquila. He published Pentateuco politico under the anagrammatic pseudonym Arenif Otonoli in the mid-1650s.
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Italian fencing master from Lecce; formerly titular fencing professor at the Real Collegio di San Giuseppe.
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