ARMORUM ARCHIVE
Giovan Antonio Lovino is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Prattica e theorica del bene adoperare tutte le sorti di arme” (1580). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giovanni Alberto Cassani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Essercitio militare, il quale dispone l’huomo a vera cognitione del scrimire di spada e dell’ordinare l’esercito a battaglia” (1603). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Florentine military writer proposed by recent scholarship as the reviser responsible for the later Monomachia manuscript.
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Giovanni Battista Maffani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Compendio e discorso di tutto quello, in che consiste la virtù delle spada” (1629). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian writer on the peaceful settlement of private conflicts arising from honour. His case-based Trattato per ridurre a pace ogni sorte di privata inimicitia first appeared in Venice in 1603 and was reissued in the seventeenth century.
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Ferrarese man of letters, court official, historian, and political figure at the Este court. Though best known for literary and historical works, he also appears in the martial bibliography because his writings intersect with chivalric, ceremonial, and courtly culture relevant to duels, tournaments, and noble conduct.
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Mantuan humanist, poet and secretary in Roman cardinal households. He completed Dialogo dell’honore, a substantial treatment of honour and duelling, shortly before his early death; his brother Antonio published it posthumously in 1553.
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Medieval jurist, university teacher, canon lawyer, diplomat, and papal vicar who became one of the most distinguished legal intellectuals of fourteenth-century Bologna. He is relevant to the duel bibliography because his writings belong to the legal and political world in which judicial combat, honour, and public order were theorized and contested.
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Bolognese poet, humanist, collector, and writer active in the literary culture of the Italian Renaissance. His presence in the project stems from works touching on duels, courtliness, and martial themes within the broader literary and ceremonial traditions of Bologna and northern Italy.
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Neapolitan nobleman, third Duke of Pescolanciano, poet and specialist in horsemanship and chivalric arts. His Pietra paragone de’ Cavalieri appeared in 1711; his son Ettore prepared the expanded posthumous 1723 edition.
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Italian military fencing master trained first in the Enrichetti school and later at the Milan military school. His Cenni di critica sul sistema di scherma Radaelli records a detailed contemporary critique of Radaelli’s épée method.
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Milanese fencing author whose Arte di adoprar la spada describes a practical thrust-oriented northern Italian method and was printed at Milan in 1682.
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