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Spanish military engineer, general and prolific military writer. His Bibliografía militar de España and Diccionario militar became major reference works for Spanish military literature and terminology.
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José Borrás y Bayonés is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “El duelo: estudio histórico-crítico” (1888). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Spanish cavalry officer, public official, librettist and prolific post-Baroque playwright. José de Cañizares wrote comedias, zarzuelas and shorter theatrical pieces, including the honour drama La banda de Castilla y duelo contra sí mismo.
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Spanish-language military translator known from an undated manuscript Instrucción de bayoneta, traducida del italiano, described by Thimm as comprising 88 pages and 22 folding plates. No unsupported life dates are assigned.
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Spanish antiquarian writer known in this catalogue from a 1759 report concerning a sword found at Peñafiel. No sufficiently authoritative evidence for fuller names or exact life dates was located.
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Spanish dramatist of the early eighteenth century, bibliographically associated with the comedy También hay duelo en las damas, represented by a 1744 Madrid printing.
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Spanish cavalry officer, politician and aristocrat, twelfth Marquis of Puerto Seguro. Luis Carvajal y Melgarejo designed the Puerto-Seguro cavalry sabre and wrote on the contemporary military use and design of the sword.
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Spanish author of `Manual de esgrima de sable`, published in Burgos in 1882 and aimed at making the principal sabre actions accessible to amateur readers. He belongs to the late nineteenth-century didactic tradition in which fencing manuals were increasingly shaped for broad practical instruction beyond strictly professional salles.
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Spanish fencing master from Guadix, active at Cádiz and author of two practical Verdadera Destreza manuals published in 1639: the Método de enseñanza de maestros and its Epítome for pupils.
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Spanish fencing master, Maestro Mayor and examiner of the kingdom, who taught at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid and published a mixed French, Italian and Spanish smallsword method in 1805.
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Spanish armourer or ordinance contributor associated with the 1512 draft regulations for Córdoba armourers preserved in the municipal archive. The document concerns armour manufacture, despite later miscitation as fencing ordinances.
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Spanish fencing author from Antequera whose Fiel despertador, printed at Jaén in 1708, defended the philosophical tradition of verdadera destreza.
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