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German cutler, `Freifechter`, and fencing master, widely regarded as the last major representative of the Liechtenauer tradition. His `Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens` (1570) synthesized older German material with contemporary practice and became one of the foundational printed texts of the German school.
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German fencing master active in Nuremberg, Bayreuth, Württemberg and Tübingen. His manuals combined thrust and cut fencing with vaulting and wrestling instruction.
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German physician, court councillor, translator and writer in Wittelsbach service. His name is associated with a broad late-medieval manuscript tradition; individual martial-text attributions require source-level caution.
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German philosopher, university educator and writer on gymnastics, military training and the history of fencing, associated with Jena and the early German gymnastics movement.
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Italian jurist from the Kingdom of Naples, also known in Latin as `Paridis de Puteo`. His `De duello` (1476) is a major legal and cultural source on single combat, chivalric law, and judicial duel practice in the late medieval and early Renaissance world.
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Renaissance soldier, fencing master, and military writer whose surviving works make him one of the most comprehensive martial authors of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Active in Italy and associated with Galeazzo da Sanseverino, he wrote on wrestling, weapons, mounted combat, physical exercise, and the wider art of war, making him a major bridge figure between medieval and early modern martial literature.
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German fencing author known from the 1731 Weimar manuscript Anweisung zum Fechten and later documentary references to his instructional activity.
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French professional association of fencing masters founded in Paris on 31 December 1886, responsible for statutes and annual directories represented in this catalogue.
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Italian general and writer on sabre fencing and the code of honour. His Codice cavalleresco italiano became one of the most successful Italian attempts to standardise duelling practice after national unification.
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French fencer, writer and researcher Adolphe Corthey, an early advocate of reconstructing historical swordsmanship and author of studies on contemporary fencing, military weapons and the history of the sword.
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French journalist, art critic, collector, fencer and writer. He published L’Art du duel, documented Parisian fencing rooms and contributed under several pseudonyms including Spada and Saint-Georges.
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Italian soldier and fencing master who taught at the Royal Naval School in Genoa and later in Florence. His 1847 treatise proposed a mixed system combining Italian and French practice.
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