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Sixteenth-century Italian fencing master whose `Dialogo del uso della spada` belongs to the post-Agrippa rapier tradition. His treatise presents itself as a clarification and extension of Agrippa’s system while also criticizing perceived weaknesses in Giacomo di Grassi’s work, making Lucino an important witness to internal debate within late Renaissance Italian fencing.
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Italian physician, classicist, and university scholar whose `De arte gymnastica` is a landmark in the study of ancient exercise, bodily culture, and physical training. Although not a fencing master in the narrow sense, Mercuriale is essential to the history of martial and athletic literature because his work linked humanist medicine, classical antiquity, and physical exercise in one of the most influential learned treatises of the Renaissance.
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Gisbertus Voetius is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “De duellis licitis et illicitis liber singularis” (1646). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giulio Cesare Valmarana is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Modo del far pace in via cavaleresca echristiana per sodisfattion diparole, nelle ingiuriefrà privati” (1648). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giuseppe Buniva is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Discorso pronunziato all’occasione della Accademia di scherma tenutasi il 2 gennaio 1858” (1858). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giuseppe Colombani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L'Arte maestra” (1711). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Italian marquis and author of Nuova asta d’Achille (Bologna, 1693), a three-part treatise advocating mediation and chivalric settlement to suppress duels and vendetta.
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Italian writer who read Il duello before the Roman Accademia degli Arcadi on 3 February 1881; the discourse was published at Siena that year. No unsupported life dates are assigned.
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Italian fencing writer whose 1878 Verona study critically evaluated the Radaelli épée system against the principles of fencing; the edition includes seven folding lithographic plates.
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Giuseppe Riboni is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Broadsword and Quarter-Staff Without a Master” (1862). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Giuseppe Weiss is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Istruzione sulla scherma a cavallo” (1830). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Mexican journalist, editor, politician and diplomat from Veracruz. He founded periodicals including El Nacional and published Consejos para el duelo a espada y a pistola in Mexico in 1878.
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