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German Renaissance painter, printmaker and theorist, also associated with surviving fencing drawings and manuscript material.
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Neapolitan fencing professor and master at the Capece and Macedonio noble colleges, author of three works linking fencing practice with physical and geometrical reasoning.
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Italian fencing author known through works on the use of the sword and the Italian martial tradition. Exact life dates have not been established.
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German-born cavalry officer in Bavarian, Berg and French service who taught mounted fencing at Saumur and published influential works on fencing on horseback and the handling of the bayonet.
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Italian jurist, humanist, and emblem writer whose fame rests on legal scholarship and the extraordinarily influential `Emblemata`. Within this project he is best understood as a contextual author from the broader Renaissance learned world in which symbols of virtue, honour, civic conduct, and martial identity circulated widely.
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Spanish infantry officer and fencing author active in Spain and Cuba. He wrote separate manuals on Spanish sabre, sabre and foil, and sword and walking-stick fencing between 1882 and 1887, with later Cuban publications.
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Nuremberg swordsmith and fencing master, probably captain of the Marxbrüder in 1522–1523. His unfinished teachings were acquired and completed by Paulus Hector Mair after Rast’s death.
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French Protestant minister and military writer, possibly identifiable with François de Saillans, whose treatises discussed war and the legal and moral problem of the duel.
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French fencing master, born in London to French parents, who represented the classical French school and published an influential practical theory of foil fencing.
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Seventeenth-century Italian author of Lo splendore della nobiltà napoletana, a heraldic game book organised around the five noble seats of Naples.
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Italian fencing master, head instructor and director at the central fencing school in Parma. He collaborated with Alberto Marchionni and published his own theoretical-practical treatise in 1871.
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Andalusian fencing master from Lebrija associated with the Spanish Verdadera Destreza tradition. His 1642 Desengaño de la espada sought to simplify contemporary doctrine and return to Carranza’s principles.
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