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Spanish fencing author known from the four-volume illustrated manuscript El discípulo instruido y diestro aprovechado, preserved at El Escorial.
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Spanish fencing master associated with the royal pages and described as teniente mayor de armas del Reino. He is named as responsible for the richly decorated 1847 manuscript title granted in favour of Infante Francisco de Paula.
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Spanish cavalry officer and fencing author whose Esgrima del sable appeared in 1877 and in an enlarged second edition in 1882.
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Basque jurist and royal councillor, also known as Fortún García de Arteaga, who served Charles V and wrote historical and juridical works; the fencing bibliography attributes to him the manuscript on the challenge between Francis I and Charles V.
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Spanish writer, journalist and fencing teacher, also known as Francisco Zea. Trained by his father Faustino de Zea, he authored the 1855 bayonet-fencing manual and was identified there as teniente mayor de armas del Reino.
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Spanish author known in this catalogue only from a Madrid manuscript dissertation on whether a law should dishonour a combatant who failed to defeat, disarm or detain an adversary. Identity and dates remain unresolved.
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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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Spanish fencing master, professor at the Infantry Academy, and knight of the Order of Military Merit. He authored the 1881 Toledo foil-fencing treatise Ensayo de un tratado de esgrima de florete.
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Gregorio Vicente Ferrer is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Libro intitulado defensa de la berdadera destreça de las armas” (1775). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Spanish infantry captain and historian of the Toledo edged-weapons factory. Hilario González published a historical survey of its origins, decline and revival in 1889.
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Aragonese soldier, poet and translator whose writings on military honour include an account of the proposed single combat between Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France.
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Spanish Baroque writer and proponent of Verdadera Destreza. His short Aristotelian argument maintains that the philosophy and skill of arms constitute a science, using scriptural and syllogistic reasoning.
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