Ferrarese academic, civic secretary, and man of letters deeply involved in the cultural life of seventeenth-century Ferrara. He is relevant here chiefly through printed relations of tournaments and festive martial spectacles, which connect him to the ceremonial and performative side of noble combat culture.
Seventeenth-century Italian fencing master from Parma, active in Ancona, and author of `L'Esercizio della spada regolato con la perfetta idea della scherma`. His work develops ideas associated with Salvator Fabris and Ridolfo Capoferro and stands as a useful later witness to the northern Italian rapier tradition.
Italian fencing master active in London in the 1590s, where he became one of the best-known exponents of rapier fencing in Elizabethan England. His `His Practise, in Two Bookes` (1595) combines technical fencing instruction with a substantial treatment of honour and quarrels.
