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Spanish jurist and member of the Real Academia de la Historia. His dissertation on the origin and legal history of duels was read in 1741 and reprinted in the Academy’s 1796 Memorias.
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Spanish military writer who adapted the French army’s bayonet-fencing method for the Escuela Militar de Tiro. His concise manual was printed in Madrid in 1861.
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Spanish writer, senator and Marqués de Heredia. He published Verdades en pocas palabras, a short work on fencing and fencers, in Madrid in 1892.
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Spanish historian, jurist, diplomat and pioneering bibliographer. Nicolás Antonio compiled the Bibliotheca Hispana, a foundational survey of Spanish authors and texts assembled through research in Spanish and Roman libraries.
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Spanish fencing and dance writer associated with the late Verdadera Destreza tradition. He authored a choreography manuscript in 1708 and the two-volume Crisol especulativo de la destreza in 1731.
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Spanish fencing author associated with the tradition of `la Verdadera Destreza`. He is known through works such as `Cartilla y luz en la verdadera destreza`, which belong to the later didactic literature of Spanish scientific swordsmanship and reflect the continued codification of destreza teaching.
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Octavio Ferrara is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Compendio y Philosophia y destreza de las Armas” (1901). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Pedro de Heredia is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Traite des armes”. No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Spanish author identified as Don Pedro Vasallo on the 1812 Palma pamphlet Satisfacción sin altercados. No secure life dates are presently known.
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Spanish jurist, politician and writer, later Viscount of Campo Grande. His youthful Estudios sobre el duelo appeared in Madrid in 1848, and he later served as senator and belonged to learned academies.
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Spanish fencing author known from the 1724 Madrid quarto Destierro vulgar y compendio sucinto on the terminology and science of the sword.
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Spanish writer who also published as Dr. Moorne and Francisco de Estepa. Teodomiro Moreno Durán produced works on varied cultural and social subjects, including the 1902 historical survey Esgrima española: apuntes para su historia.
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