ARMORUM ARCHIVE
French surgeon and writer who published on fencing and the épée under the pseudonym Claude La Marche. Georges-Marie Félizet combined a medical career with close observation of contemporary fencing culture.
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Italian author of a practical late nineteenth-century manual on sword and sabre fencing that also includes historical remarks on weapons and principal rules of duelling. He represents the phase in which fencing manuals increasingly combined technical instruction with historical framing and explicit duel-related guidance.
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Italian author active in the early nineteenth century, represented by an elementary fencing treatise and works on horsemanship and equestrian practice.
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Neapolitan soldier, general and military author Giuseppe Rosaroll, who used his mother’s surname Scorza. With Pietro Grisetti he published the 1803 fencing manual La scienza della scherma and later wrote works on the bayonet and broad sword.
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Swedish army officer, gymnastics teacher and fencing theorist. He taught within the Ling tradition and published works on general gymnastics, weapons practice and military physical education.
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German fencing master whose teachings preserve a lineage associated with Salvator Fabris and Signor Herman.
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British fencing master and memoirist, son of Domenico Angelo, who continued the Angelo family’s central role in British fencing culture. He published fencing-related works and later reminiscences, preserving both technical traditions and valuable social history about fencing circles in Britain.
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German military officer, gymnastics teacher and writer who promoted the Ling system in Prussia and published manuals on bayonet, épée and sabre fencing.
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French anti-duelling writer to whom the bibliography attributes three distinct texts dated 1609, 1612 and 1629. No reliable authority source has yet expanded the initial or established life dates.
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Netherlandish engraver, draughtsman, and publisher best known in martial bibliography for the illustrated weapons and drill material associated with early modern military exercise. He is relevant to the database less as a fencing master than as a major visual and print-culture figure whose engravings shaped the transmission of arms knowledge.
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French Huguenot theologian, historian, pastor and diplomat who worked in the Dutch Republic after 1685. His Dissertation historique sur les duels et les ordres de chevalerie first appeared in Amsterdam in 1720.
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French historian, jurist and magistrate from Clermont-Ferrand; wrote in French and Latin.
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