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Italian fencing master associated with Padua and founder of a gymnastics and fencing institution. He authored and promoted works on sabre and contemporary Italian fencing.
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Italian educator and historian of gymnastics, a pupil of Rudolf Obermann and the first central inspector responsible for gymnastics in the national education administration.
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French physician and physiologist who studied exercise, fatigue and physical education. Fernand Lagrange also examined fencing as exercise and wrote the preface to Joseph Charlemont’s study of boxing and cane fighting.
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French fencing writer and self-described fencing master associated with a satirical duel-survival manual published in Paris in 1828 and translated into Italian and German. The forename remains unresolved.
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Spanish nobleman, soldier, painter and fencing master associated with the Verdadera Destreza tradition. He served Charles II and published major works on the philosophical and mathematical foundations of arms.
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French army officer, fencing master and author; directed fencing instruction at Joinville and devised the sabre that bears his name.
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French writer on duelling and fencing history.
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Spanish author in the Verdadera Destreza tradition. His Cornucopia numerosa systematised principles drawn from Luis Pacheco de Narváez and answered contemporary assertions against that doctrine.
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Spanish-born nobleman and Baden officer involved in the Göler–Haber affair. He published several accounts of the dispute in 1843 and was mortally wounded in a subsequent pistol duel with Moritz von Haber.
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British militia captain, honorary secretary of the London Fencing Club and author of practical works on foil fencing for military instructors and other students.
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British fencing and gymnastics master of the Roland family, active at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh and author of manuals on fencing and physical exercise.
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Romanian prince and author active in France who wrote on politics, military affairs and the regulation of duels, including a practical manual covering sword, foil, sabre and pistol.
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