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Italian humanist, notary, poet and prose writer active at the courts of the Bentivoglio, Este and Gonzaga families. Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti recorded Bolognese courtly culture, including tournaments, and is best known for Le porretane.
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Sixteenth-century Italian fencing master whose `Dialogo del uso della spada` belongs to the post-Agrippa rapier tradition. His treatise presents itself as a clarification and extension of Agrippa’s system while also criticizing perceived weaknesses in Giacomo di Grassi’s work, making Lucino an important witness to internal debate within late Renaissance Italian fencing.
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Italian physician, classicist, and university scholar whose `De arte gymnastica` is a landmark in the study of ancient exercise, bodily culture, and physical training. Although not a fencing master in the narrow sense, Mercuriale is essential to the history of martial and athletic literature because his work linked humanist medicine, classical antiquity, and physical exercise in one of the most influential learned treatises of the Renaissance.
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Italian marquis and author of Nuova asta d’Achille (Bologna, 1693), a three-part treatise advocating mediation and chivalric settlement to suppress duels and vendetta.
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Italian writer who read Il duello before the Roman Accademia degli Arcadi on 3 February 1881; the discourse was published at Siena that year. No unsupported life dates are assigned.
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Italian fencing writer whose 1878 Verona study critically evaluated the Radaelli épée system against the principles of fencing; the edition includes seven folding lithographic plates.
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Savoyard Barnabite theologian, philosopher and cardinal; professor at Turin and author of a royal-commissioned treatise opposing single combat.
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Italian fencing master from Florence, active at the Medici court under Ferdinando II de' Medici, where he instructed noble pages. His `Opposizioni et Avvertimenti sopra la Scherma` is notable for its sharp critique of mathematical fencing systems, elaborate postures, and school-bound habits, in favour of direct and practical swordsmanship for earnest combat.
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Italian jurist and cleric from Solarolo, rector of San Martino at Formellino in the diocese of Faenza. He wrote legal-canonical treatises including the 1610 Tractatus de prohibitione duelli.
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Maria Salvatore Arista is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Del progresso della scherma in Italia” (1884). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian military officer, general, politician and historian. His Bibliografia militare italiana antica e moderna is an important nineteenth-century survey of Italian military literature, including works on swordsmanship.
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Sienese jurist and university professor conventionally known as Mariano Sozzini the Younger. He taught civil law at Siena, Pisa, Padua and Bologna and contributed legal consilia to the duelling compilation first printed in 1544.
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