Military and martial treatise by Francesco Marziali of Brescia, printed at Bologna in 1670. Gelli emphasizes the pike-handling section and its engraved instructional figures.
Gelli describes the Bologna 1670 edition, printed by the heir of Domenico Barbieri, with engraved allegorical title pages and an opening pike section demonstrated in 17 leaves and 60 copper figures. A later 1673 witness remains preserved through older source references.
Quality phase 101e: physical extent recovered after unique-expression review; composite collation preserved where present.
Quality phase 101j: explicit publisher/printer statement linked after individual review.
Quality phase 285: illustration/plate description recovered after individual manifestation-level review of the already-linked bibliographic notes.
Quality phase 288: The Bologna 1670 opening pike section is structured as seventeen illustrated leaves carrying sixty copper figures.
Digital Witnesses
Gelli — Bibliografia generale della scherma — bibliographic witness for edition 2472
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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 #3179.
