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Bolognese fencing master who completed a dialogue on single-sword fencing shortly before his death. His brother Battista preserved it for posthumous publication as Lo Schermo.
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Italian mathematician, engineer, architect, and fencing theorist active in the second half of the sixteenth century. His `Trattato di scientia d'arme` (1553) is a landmark in rapier fencing history because it reorganized fencing around geometric reasoning, simplified guards, and strongly influenced later Italian and French traditions.
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French fencing journalist, instructor, and prolific author on epee, sabre, duelling, street self-defence, cane, and related combat disciplines. He was one of the most visible popularizers of fin-de-siecle French martial culture and helped bridge formal fencing, duel practice, and practical urban self-defence literature.
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Spanish historian, bibliographer and member of the Real Academia de la Historia, noted for collecting fencing books and for major studies of Spanish fencing and arms.
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Neapolitan nobleman and riding master whose Gli ordini di cavalcare, first published in 1550, became one of the most influential early-modern European works on horsemanship.
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Italian military fencing master and prominent advocate of Giuseppe Radaelli’s sabre method. He taught at military institutions and published influential manuals and polemical studies.
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Spanish soldier, administrator, and fencing author in the later Verdadera Destreza tradition. His `Nobleza de la espada` and related writings are important for the late development of Spanish technical theory, especially in the treatment of measure, atajo, and the response to Italian methods.
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German university fencing master at Jena and major exponent of nineteenth-century German cut fencing. He authored manuals on cut fencing, Kreußler thrust fencing and academic duelling practice.
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Bolognese fencing master active in Rome and Paris. A French translation transmitted his fencing instruction, and he later taught within the courtly milieu of Henry IV.
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French author of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century works on honour, valour and the suppression of duelling, including Discours des querelles et de l’honneur.
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Spanish military fencing professor at the Infantry Academy in Toledo. His methods covered sabre and bayonet fencing on foot and horseback and influenced official military instruction.
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Augsburg artist and compiler associated with a large illustrated tournament and martial manuscript now preserved as Cod. Guelf. 1.6.3 Aug. 2°.
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