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Milanese nobleman, jurist and writer on chivalric honour who was frequently called to mediate disputes among nobles. His Discorsi and Consigli cavallereschi became prominent seventeenth-century treatments of peace-making, precedence and the point of honour.
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Italian doctor of law from the Jacobilli family of Foligno, author of a chivalric work and a seventeenth-century fencing compendium.
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Austrian imperial-royal military author of a training guide for sabre fencing in troop schools, published for the use of the k.k. army in 1875.
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British cavalry officer, bibliophile and collector specialising in horses, equitation and swordsmanship. He compiled the 1887 bibliographical record Works on Horses and Equitation and the 1890 catalogue of his specialist library.
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English jurist, legal historian and academic, later the third Pollock baronet. He was Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, founding editor of the Law Quarterly Review and a participant in the late Victorian revival of historical fencing.
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German educator, nationalist and central figure in the early Turnen movement. With Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen he published Die deutsche Turnkunst, an influential system of physical exercises that also encompassed martial training.
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Unidentified author represented by the initials G. A., used for Pallas Armata (1639) and for the closely related Danish manual Den Ridderlige oc Adelige Fecht-Konstis (1646).
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British military author identified as Captain G. Sinclair of the 42nd Regiment and associated with manuals on broadsword, single-stick and cudgel play; one work appeared as by “A Highland Officer”.
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British military writer represented by two illustrated studies on fencing and the sabre published in the Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine.
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United States Army officer and military author. A West Point graduate, George Washington Patten produced manuals on infantry tactics, bayonet drill, small-sword exercise, artillery and cavalry drill during the American Civil War era.
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Italian baron, lawyer and scholar of duelling. He co-authored Bibliografia del duello with Jacopo Gelli and assembled a specialist collection later donated to the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
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Italian fencing master and soldier active in the early seventeenth century, linked to the courtly environment of Savoy. His `Arte di Maneggiar la Spada a Piedi et a Cavallo` and `Discorso del Tornear a Piedi` show the close relationship between fencing, horsemanship, tournament culture, and aristocratic martial display.
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