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Italian fencing master and author of a sequence of theoretical and practical lessons on swordsmanship published between 1835 and 1853.
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Venetian engineer, soldier, journalist, writer and parliamentarian Paulo Fambri. His broad interest in military culture included works on duelling jurisprudence, honour and martial gymnastics.
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French soldier, courtier, traveller and memoirist, known as the seigneur de Brantôme. His writings are important witnesses to aristocratic warfare, honour and duelling culture.
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Italian fencing master from Cagli, active in Siena and best known for the influential rapier treatise Gran simulacro dell’arte e dell’uso della scherma, first printed in 1610.
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Italian cavalry officer and military fencing author who recorded and disseminated Giuseppe Radaelli’s system of sabre and sword instruction for use by the Italian army.
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British explorer, translator, soldier and author of works on swordsmanship.
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German fencing author and editor who adapted E. W. B. Eiselen’s thrust-fencing school and later co-edited revised editions of Eiselen’s Berlin cut-fencing manual.
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French fencing master known as Gomard, formerly instructor to the royal pages and other state institutions. His 1845 Théorie de l’escrime offered a systematic method and a substantial historical bibliography.
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Dutch painter, engraver, and draughtsman whose importance to this project lies in the illustrated martial material associated with `Nassausche wapen-handelinge`, the supplement to Jacob de Gheyn's famous weapons manual. He is therefore a visual and print-culture contributor to the transmission of arms knowledge rather than a technical fencing author.
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French journalist, playwright, librettist and sports columnist, also known by the pseudonym Robert Milton. Albert de Saint-Albin promoted fencing and documented the masters and fencing rooms of nineteenth-century Paris.
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Irish-born fencing master active in the German-speaking lands, author of the illustrated Neu Alamodische Ritterliche Fecht- und Schirm-Kunst (1715), with a later 1729 edition. The separate 1706 Geöffnete Fecht-Boden is not attributed to him here.
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French fencing master associated with the Musketeers of the French royal household and author of the 1782 Traité en raccourci sur l’art des armes.
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