Opera nova de Achille Marozzo bolognese, maestro generale de l’arte de l’armi

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Opera nova de Achille Marozzo bolognese, maestro generale de l’arte de l’armi

Treatise 1536 Italian Italy

Achille Marozzo

Early Venetian witness of Achille Marozzo's Opera nova, dated 1517 and highlighted by Gelli as a major bibliographic discovery. Earlier local ingestion had mixed 1517 and 1536 evidence into one record; this normalization anchors the present record explicitly to the 1517 Venetian edition.

Gelli records a 1568 state within the Marozzo Opera nova family.

Castle treats the 1536, 1550, and 1568 Marozzo states as witnesses within the same Opera nova family.

Vigeant 1882 also records the Modena 1536 Marozzo witness within the broader Opera nova family, describing its 82 repeated woodcut plates and treating Marozzo as the first author to write on fencing in a substantially defined way.

Quality phase 190: the former 1517 work was a bibliographic phantom caused by alteration of MDLXVII in a composite Pisa copy. Works 2444–2447 were edition-fragments and are consolidated here; the genuine sequence represented locally is 1536, 1550, 1568 and 1615.

4 Editions

5 Resources

0 Holdings

19 References

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Bibliographic Overview

TitleOpera nova de Achille Marozzo bolognese, maestro generale de l’arte de l’armi

AuthorAchille Marozzo

Earliest publication date1536

LanguageItalian

CountryItaly

Document typeTreatise

Authority statement

Achille Marozzo

Authority Roles

Author

Achille Marozzo

Edition History

Opera nova de Achille Marozzo bolognese, maestro generale de l’arte de l’armi 1536

CityModena

PublisherNot specified

PrinterAntonio Bergolli

Format4to

Pages[8], 148 leaves

DimensionsNot specified

Gelli describes the Venetian 1517 edition, published by the heirs of Marchio Sessa, as comprising 181 leaves with plates similar to those of the Modena edition. The prior local Thimm-based import note had conflated this witness with later Marozzo edition data.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 89-90: same-family reference to the Modena 1536 witness, with woodcut frontispiece, 82 woodcut plates, and dedication. Vigeant stresses Marozzo's foundational importance and the later dependence of other authors on him.

Quality phase 101a: physical extent recovered from the existing bibliographic note.

Quality phase 190: rebuilt from the false 1517 shell as the genuine Modena 1536 first edition. The alleged 1517 witness was an altered/composite later copy, not a publication.

Quality phase 288: The Modena 1536 visual programme consists of relief-printed woodcuts, including full-page cuts, within the gathered book rather than separately inserted plates.

Opera nova, second edition 1550

CityVenetia

PublisherStampata per Giovane Padouano, ad instantia de Marchior Sessa

PrinterNot specified

Format4°

Pages[8], 148 leaves

DimensionsNot specified

Gelli identifies the 1550 Venetian issue, printed by Gioanne Padouano at the instance of Melchior Sessa, as an exact reproduction of the Modena edition.

Vigeant 1882, p. 90: Venice, printed by Gioanne Padouano at the instance of Marchior Sessa, 1550. Vigeant says this second edition reproduces the first exactly.

Quality phase 295: The 1550 Venice second edition is explicitly described as an exact reproduction of the 1536 Modena edition, so the corrected first-edition visual programme is retained.

Quality phase 454: exact 1550 Venice copy description supplies [8] preliminary and 148 numbered leaves.

Artedell' Armi. Ricorretto, etornato dinuove figurein rame 1568

CityVenetia

PublisherAppresso Antonio Pinargenti

PrinterNot specified

Format4°

Pages10 unnumbered p., 194 p.

DimensionsNot specified

Gelli describes the 1568 Pinargenti edition as a splendid Venetian reissue with 10 unnumbered pages, 194 numbered pages, and 26 copperplates, not a separate work by Sebastiano Marozzo.

Vigeant 1882, p. 91: Venice, A. Pinargenti, 1568. Fourth edition, corrected and ornamented with new copper figures in the text, with dedication by the painter Giulio Fontana to Don Giovanni Manriche. Vigeant insists this is a true fourth edition of the earlier Marozzo book, not a separate filial work.

Quality phase 101a: physical extent recovered from the existing bibliographic note.

Quality phase 190: consolidated duplicate former edition 2454.

Source pages: 211. Bracketed notes: ["76figures, out oftext."]

Vigeant 1882, p. 90: undated and place-less third edition, approximately 1568, repeating the frontispiece and woodcut plates of the first two editions but with different typography.

Quality phase 291: The Venice 1568 Pinargenti edition contains twenty-six new copper figures in the text; an undated third-edition note was not transferred.

Arte dell'armi, fifth edition 1615

CityVerona

PublisherNot specified

PrinterNot specified

Format4°

Pages[8], 148 leaves

DimensionsNot specified

Gelli notes a Verona 1615 new edition of Marozzo's work, apparently issued under Sebastiano Marozzo's care.

Vigeant 1882, p. 92: Verona, 1615. Fifth edition, said to conform to the 1568 Venetian fourth edition.

Quality phase 295: The 1615 Verona fifth edition is explicitly said to conform to the 1568 Venice fourth edition.

Quality phase 457: the Verona 1615 Marozzo reprint is retained; textual extent follows the 148-leaf work structure, while no printer is asserted.

Digital Witnesses

Gelli — Bibliografia generale della scherma — bibliographic witness for edition 2455

Catalogue PDF OCR

Jacopo Gelli / Mori BZ · open

Bibliographic witness linked in quality phase 512. It supports catalogue provenance and does not imply that the linked file is a facsimile of this edition. Source selection score 540; bibliography reference #3173.

Consult resource

Marozzo Opera Nova publication history

Catalogue HTML

Wiktenauer · open

Research witness linked in quality phase 457 (50-edition batch).

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 643: the available image is generic or belongs to a different edition.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=already_reviewed_unsuitable. Prior individual audit explicitly rejected this resource: cover deliberately not assigned. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=UTF-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=previously_rejected; source had already been individually reviewed and rejected as unsuitable for a reliable edition cover.

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Open Library — Marozzo 1550

Catalogue HTML

Open Library · open

Research witness linked in quality phase 454.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=digital_repository_record. Repository object or aggregator that may expose an exact scan through an API, IIIF manifest or viewer. External probe: no HTTP response was obtained during the bounded check.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=repository_reviewed_no_reusable_exact_image; repository record reviewed; no sufficiently precise and reusable exact-object image was obtainable in this pass.

Consult resource

Wiktenauer — Opera Nova (Achille Marozzo)

HTML OCR

Wiktenauer · open

Imported from Wiktenauer Books batch 1 on 2026-07-17. Source row 9; confidence=high.

Quality phase 190: resource retained on the canonical Marozzo work after removal of the false 1517 interpretation.

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UMass Lord Collection PDF — Achille Marozzo, Opera Nova

PDF

UMass Amherst - Raymond J. Lord Collection · open

Imported from UMass Lord preview mapping on 2026-07-17. Source row 2; match_status=high_confidence; match_score=132.

Quality phase 190: resource retained on the canonical Marozzo work after removal of the false 1517 interpretation.

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Scholarly References

Castle entry CAS-P042-E006

Castle (1892)

Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.

Pages 42-43 · Entry CAS-P042-E006

Castle entry CAS-P043-E005

Castle (1892)

Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.

Pages 43 · Entry CAS-P043-E005

Castle entry CAS-P047-E001

Castle (1892)

Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.

Pages 47 · Entry CAS-P047-E001

Gelli entry GEL-P170-E001

Gelli (1890)