HEMA Authors and Fencing Masters

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Antonio Fabri

Italy fl. 1854

Italian author of the 1854 Palermo commemorative pamphlet for the inauguration of the fencing hall and riding school of the cavalry regiment’s quarters.

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Antonio Vezzani

Italy fl. 1628–1688

Italian fencing master from Modena who taught sword, pike and banner at the Collegio dei Nobili in Parma. His illustrated Esercizio accademico di picca is documented in a 1628 witness and a substantially illustrated second edition of 1688.

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Arnoldo Ranzatto

Italy fl. 1885–1889

Venetian fencing master and author of Istruzioni per la scherma di sciabola (1885), an illustrated non-Radaellian sabre manual that also discusses rules for the duel.

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Bartolomeo Bertolini

Italy ? - 1871 fl. 1838–1867

Italian fencing master from Trento who directed an influential fencing hall in Trieste from 1838 to 1856 and published several treatises, including Trattato di sciabola in 1842.

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Battista della Valle

Italy 1470 - 1550 fl. 1512–1550

Italian soldier and military writer, author of the widely reprinted Vallo, a practical Renaissance treatise on fortification, siegecraft and military exercises.

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Carlo Pilla

Italy fl. 1886

Italian lecturer on fencing whose 1886 Bologna conference Arte e scuole di scherma defended and analysed contemporary Italian schools, especially debates around the Radaelli tradition.

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Cletto Arrighi

Italy 1828 - 1906

Italian writer and journalist born Carlo Righetti, known by the pen name Cletto Arrighi.

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Corradino

Italy fl. 1857

Palermitan fencing writer identified by surname only as co-author with Giambattista Vella of an 1857 technical opinion on a local fencing controversy.

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Costantino Calarone

Italy fl. 1714

Costantino Calarone is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Scienza pratica necessaria all'huomo, overo modo per superare la forza coll'uso regolato della spada” (1714). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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Cristoforo Blengini

Italy 1804 - 1856 fl. 1850

Italian fencer and author from Mondovì, documented through Teoria della scherma, published in 1850. The surviving bibliographical evidence securely establishes the work and life dates but does not support a more detailed professional reconstruction.

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Domenico Cariolato

Italy fl. 1881

Domenico Cariolato is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Relazione del Torneo internazionale di scherma tenuto in Milano nel giugno del 1881” (1881). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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Ernesto Besenzanica

Italy 1864 - 1940 fl. 1883–1940

Italian engineer, competitive sabre fencer and writer on fencing. A pupil of Giovanni Monti, Ernesto Besenzanica defended the Radaellian sabre tradition in his 1886 critique of the official fencing-treatise competition.

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