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Spanish fencing master, theorist, and the central later architect of the Verdadera Destreza tradition after Jeronimo Sanchez de Carranza. He was one of the most prolific martial authors of the early modern world and played a decisive role in codifying, expanding, and institutionalizing the philosophical and technical vocabulary of Spanish swordsmanship.
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Spanish soldier, administrator, and fencing author in the later Verdadera Destreza tradition. His `Nobleza de la espada` and related writings are important for the late development of Spanish technical theory, especially in the treatment of measure, atajo, and the response to Italian methods.
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Renaissance soldier, fencing master, and military writer whose surviving works make him one of the most comprehensive martial authors of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Active in Italy and associated with Galeazzo da Sanseverino, he wrote on wrestling, weapons, mounted combat, physical exercise, and the wider art of war, making him a major bridge figure between medieval and early modern martial literature.
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Spanish calligrapher, paleographer, archivist, and man of letters born in Toledo and active mainly in Madrid. Though not a technical fencing master, he is relevant to the project through his connection with eighteenth-century Spanish sword and writing culture, including material touching Toledo blade traditions and the broader learned world in which martial and artisanal knowledge circulated.
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