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Italian soldier and fencing master from Lucca, serving as ensign in the fortress of Bergamo and author of `Nuovo et brieve modo di schermire`. He belongs to the Agrippa-influenced rapier current of the later sixteenth century and is especially useful for tracing the adaptation of geometric or rationalized swordplay within northern Italian martial culture.
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French journalist, playwright and historian who participated in Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1840 Boulogne expedition. He wrote Physiologie du duel, first issued in 1853 and later expanded.
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Alfred Goemaere is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Escrime: vagabondages à travers les auteurs des 15e, 16e, 17e et 18e siècles” (1905). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Catalogue authority heading ALLANSON-WINN, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Handbook of Athletic Sports, vol. III: Boxing, Wrestling, Fencing, Broadsword and Single-Stick” (1890). 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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Almerico Melina is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “La nuova scherma mista e la vera italiana” (1888). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Alphons von Linsingen is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “LINSINGEN .Handbuch zurAnweisungdesSoldaten inderGymnastikund imBajonetfechten” (1854). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French fencing master and specialist in foil, fully named Simon Nicolas Alphonse Kirchhoffer. A pupil of his father and Arsène Vigeant, he won major international competitions, received an Olympic silver medal in 1900 and authored the 1911 Larousse manual L’escrime: fleuret.
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Alphonse Martainville is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Le Duel impossible” (1803). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Alphonse Signol is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Apologie du duel” (1829). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Belgian lawyer, magistrate and legal writer, born at Liège and deceased at Brussels; author of the 1841 legislative commentary on duelling.
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Spanish captain and knight of the Order of Santiago, born in 1645. His manuscript Comprensión de la destreza, dated 1681, examines Spanish and Italian fencing practice.
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Ambrogio Uboldo is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Descrizione degli Scudi” (1842). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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