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Italian fencing master and author trained in the school of his father Giuseppe Pini. Eugenio Pini taught at the Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, toured internationally, and later played a formative role in military and sporting fencing in Argentina.
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Bolognese soldier and fencing author associated with the late sixteenth-century Italian martial world. His `Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii` places him among the writers who combined fencing with broader aristocratic and military exercises, and his career connected him with both active soldiering and courtly intellectual circles.
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Italian bibliographical writer who published an 1872 Pisa letter concerning G. B. Viti’s treatise on sabre fencing.
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Italian philosopher, theologian and professor at Pisa. His Trattato dell’amore humano includes discourses on honour and conduct and circulated in several sixteenth-century editions.
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Italian composer, singing teacher and music publisher active in Paris; composer of the ariettes for Le Duel de Bambin.
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Italian language teacher, Italianist and lexicographer active in Berlin. Francesco Valentini promoted Italian language and literature in Prussia and produced a major bilingual dictionary as well as a dialogue on honour and duelling.
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Italian soldier, diplomat and military historian from Vicenza. Count Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato wrote Il maneggio dell’armi moderno and numerous histories of seventeenth-century European warfare.
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Gerolamo Giovanni Battista Christiani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Compendio di Scherma” (Milano). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian fencing master, probably from Modena, active in northern Italy and later connected with the London print history of his work. His `Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme` (1570), translated into English in 1594 as `His True Arte of Defence`, is one of the classic early rapier treatises.
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Giacomo Sega is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “What Is True Civilization? or, Means to Suppress the Practice of Duelling, to Prevent, or to Punish, Crimes, and to Abolish the Punishment of Death” (1830). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Palermitan fencing writer who co-authored an 1857 technical opinion on a controversy between Nicolò Abbondati and Blasco Florio.
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Gioacchino Granito, principe di Belmonte 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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