Seventeenth-century Neapolitan fencing treatise by Francesco Antonio Mattei, printed at Foggia in 1669. Although Blasco Florio praised it highly, Gelli judges the work harshly and denies it any practical value for the progress of fencing.
Gelli records the Foggia 1669 Novello de Bonis printing and notes Florio's positive account of Mattei, but explicitly dismisses the treatise itself as a valueless seventeenth-century discursiveness.
Quality phase 122: Foggia: Novello de Bonis, 1669. Core metadata reviewed from the exact institutional surrogate.
Physical extent verified against an exact-manifestation external catalog record in quality phase 143 (2026-08-15).
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Internet Archive facsimile - Della scherma napoletana
