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Italian physician-surgeon and fencing master of the Neapolitan school, born at Scordia on 28 May 1845. Vincenzo Bellini wrote the 1881 Manuale del duello and the illustrated 1882 sabre treatise La sciabola.
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British art historian, author and museum director who led the National Gallery of Ireland. Walter Armstrong also wrote on sport and supplied the wrestling contribution to the 1890 volume Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling.
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English writer, poet, lecturer, journalist and editor of the Saturday Review. Walter Herries Pollock was also a prominent amateur fencer and contributed to the Badminton Library volume Fencing, Boxing and Wrestling.
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German cartographer, topographer, historian, and fortress engineer active in Hesse and later Saxony. He is relevant to the project through military architecture, fortification literature, and the broader early modern technical culture of war in which books on arms, drill, and defence circulated alongside fencing treatises.
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English Royalist courtier, soldier, author and celebrated authority on horsemanship. William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, also wrote on honour and swordsmanship; his fencing manuscript The Truth of the Sorde survives as British Library Harley MS 4206.
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British periodical contributor identified by the abbreviated byline A. Andrew in the fencing bibliography. The linked article on eighteenth-century duelling appeared in volume 103 of The New Monthly Magazine in 1855.
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Unidentified author using the initials A. B. for a twenty-two-page essay on duelling published at Bordeaux in August 1836.
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Danish military fencing author known from the 1887 Nyborg manual Vejledning i Kompagniets af Fægtningslæren. The work concerns company-level instruction in fencing; the consulted bibliography supplies only the author’s initial.
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Catalogue authority heading A. C. O., associated in the reviewed records as author of “Libro de armas y doctrina para el resguardo de los aficionados de dicha ciencia, con contras y explicaciones de toda la arte que se encierra en la espada”. The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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A. Cavalcabo is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L'Escrime encore et toujours à Lyon” (1889). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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A. Colonna di Stigliano is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Dialogismo sul duello” (1878). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Author of the German-language sabre-fencing manual Leitfaden für den Unterricht im Säbelfechten, published by Hess at Prague in 1857. The initial and nationality remain unexpanded pending an authority record.
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