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Italian fencing master, probably from Modena, active in northern Italy and later connected with the London print history of his work. His `Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme` (1570), translated into English in 1594 as `His True Arte of Defence`, is one of the classic early rapier treatises.
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Giacomo Gnocco is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Scrittura contro il metodo Radaelli”. No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giacomo Sega is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “What Is True Civilization? or, Means to Suppress the Practice of Duelling, to Prevent, or to Punish, Crimes, and to Abolish the Punishment of Death” (1830). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giambattista Isacchi is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varii secreti e utili avisi a persone di guerra e per i tempi di piacere” (1579). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Palermitan fencing writer who co-authored an 1857 technical opinion on a controversy between Nicolò Abbondati and Blasco Florio.
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Gio. Battista Ferrero is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Breve trattato di scherma sul maneggio della sciabola” (1868). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Gioacchino Granito, principe di Belmonte is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Relazione del Torneo internazionale di scherma tenuto in Milano nel giugno del 1881” (1881). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giovan Antonio Lovino is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Prattica e theorica del bene adoperare tutte le sorti di arme” (1580). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giovanni Alberto Cassani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Essercitio militare, il quale dispone l’huomo a vera cognitione del scrimire di spada e dell’ordinare l’esercito a battaglia” (1603). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Florentine military writer proposed by recent scholarship as the reviser responsible for the later Monomachia manuscript.
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Giovanni Battista Maffani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Compendio e discorso di tutto quello, in che consiste la virtù delle spada” (1629). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian writer on the peaceful settlement of private conflicts arising from honour. His case-based Trattato per ridurre a pace ogni sorte di privata inimicitia first appeared in Venice in 1603 and was reissued in the seventeenth century.
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