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Italian lawyer and fencing writer, described as a student at the University of Pisa when his Breve trattato di scherma alla sciabola appeared in 1863. He later wrote on duelling law and practice.
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Italian painter, musician, playwright and prolific writer known under the forms Bricci, Briccio and Brizio. Giovanni Briccio wrote popular theatre and practical or moral prose, including advice on defending oneself in dangerous encounters.
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Dutch fencing master associated with the Spanish tradition of `la Verdadera Destreza`. He is the author of `Academie de l'Espée`, an exceptionally elaborate and mathematically structured rapier treatise printed after his death and counted among the most ambitious fencing books of the early modern period.
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Italian jurist, notary and public official from Ravenna who served papal and southern Italian administrations. His writings include twenty-two consilia on duelling and broader works on military, maritime and fiscal law.
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Italian fencing master active in Milan and author of illustrated theoretical-practical treatises on two-handed stick fighting and sabre fencing.
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Italian fencing master associated with Ferrara and identified on his 1856 treatise as master of the Papal Hunters Battalion. He wrote on sabre handling and a mixed counterpoint school.
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Seventeenth-century Italian fencing master associated with the Neapolitan tradition and remembered above all for `La Scherma illustrata` and its continuation. His books are important witnesses to the later Italian development of rapier play and to the diffusion of southern Italian fencing methods in print.
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Milanese fencing master and leading nineteenth-century reformer of Italian sabre fencing. His method, promoted through military teaching and the manuals written by Settimo Del Frate, became internationally influential.
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Sicilian fencing author associated with the later seventeenth-century southern Italian tradition. His `Trattato della scherma Siciliana` places him within the broader Neapolitan and insular Italian development of rapier and swordplay theory during a period of strong regional schools and lineages.
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Fencing author identified on the 1822 London manual The Modern Art of Fencing as le Sieur Guzman Rolando; the work was revised by J. S. Forsyth and translated into Spanish in 1826.
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Fifteenth-century writer credited with the fencing text Modus Dimicandi. His identity is unresolved; proposed identification with Heinrich of Wismar is not treated as established.
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German cleric and fencing master named in a short addendum to the Liechtenauer material in manuscript 3227a; the same material is transmitted in the 1508 Glasgow Fechtbuch.
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