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Spanish verdadera destreza master from Écija, active in Seville, and author of several works defending Carranza’s doctrine, including manuscripts revised around 1639–1640.
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Spanish jurist associated with the bilingual Latin and Castilian duelling treatise printed at Turin in 1525. Diego del Castillo de Villasante studied law in Bologna and his work adapts continental learned law on judicial and honour combat for a Castilian readership.
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Spanish fencing master and author of an extensive 1854 treatise on foil, infantry sabre and cavalry practice, followed by a distinct 1861 manual on bayonet fencing printed in Havana.
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Spanish fencing master from Logroño, attached to the courts of Baltasar Carlos, Juan José de Austria and Carlos II, and author in the Verdadera Destreza tradition.
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Spanish captain and knight of the Order of Santiago, born in 1645. His manuscript Comprensión de la destreza, dated 1681, examines Spanish and Italian fencing practice.
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Spanish fencing master and author of manuals on foil and sabre fencing, including the Manual de esgrima first published in Madrid in 1864.
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Spanish jurist who delivered a doctoral discourse on duelling at the Universidad Central in 1860.
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Pseudonymous Spanish author of El duelo ó desafío y sus reglas, published at Madrid in 1873; the civil identity behind the name has not been established.
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Cayetano Población Pérez is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Esgrima, o sea la destreza del florete” (1832). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Spanish writer on horsemanship, bridles and the jineta tradition. The Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico attributes the manuscript Tratado de la brida y gineta to him and records his death in 1666.
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Spanish painter, antiquarian and fencing writer, author of the 1697 Compendio de las definiciones y principios de la ciencia de las armas.
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Spanish-language fencing author of Doce conclusiones de la destreza de la espada, dedicated at Lima to the viceroy marqués de Castelldosrius.
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