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Arte di maneggiar la spada a piedi et a cavallo

Book 1619 Italian Italy

Giovanni Battista Gaiani

Treatise by Giovan Battista Gajani printed at Loano in 1619 and dedicated to Vittorio Amedeo and Francesco Tommaso of Savoy. Gelli also reports, from an old Casanatense catalogue, an untraced notice that may point to a 1664 edition under the GALANI/GALIANI form.

Castle also records the Loano 1619 Gajani witness.

Vigeant 1882 preserves the Loano 1619 Castello imprint for Gaiani, the dedication to Vittorio Amadeo and Francesco Tomaso of Savoy, and notes the interesting preliminary studies on the fencing master in the opening chapters.

Final Vigeant duplicate sweep on 2026-08-11 folded the weaker shell Arte di maneggiar la spada a piedi et a cavallo (work 1107) into this canonical Gaiani record.

The appended Galaxy/J. Hawthorne citation in Thimm entry 852 was separated into work 3732.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleArte di maneggiar la spada a piedi et a cavallo
AuthorGiovanni Battista Gaiani
Earliest publication date1619
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Giovanni Battista Gaiani
FencingSwordsmanship Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Giovanni Battista Gaiani
Edition History
Arte di maneggiar la spada a piedi et a cavallo 1619
CityLoano
PublisherFrancesco Castello
PrinterNot specified
Format4to
Pages[12], 213 [i.e. 123], [1] p.
Dimensions20 cm
Gelli lists the Loano 1619 Francesco Castello edition with dedication, Al lettore, introduction, 213 pages and 6 unnumbered leaves; he also notes an unverified old-catalog tradition suggesting a possible 1664 edition.

Vigeant 1882, p. 62: In Loano, appresso Francesco Castello, 1619. In-4to with dedication, Au Lecteur, and introduction; dedicated to Vittorio Amadeo and Francesco Tomaso of Savoy.

Quality phase 101e: physical extent recovered after unique-expression review; composite collation preserved where present.

Quality phase 101k: production/publication place recovered from an explicit, manifestation-matching statement after individual review.

Quality phase 101m: explicit imprint agent linked after final individual review.

Quality phase 189: the printed terminal page number 213 is an error for 123; both the diplomatic and corrected readings are retained.
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Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P047-E003
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-E003
Gelli entry GEL-P144-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 144 · Entry 001
Gelli entry GEL-P145-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 145 · Entry 001
Thimm entry 852
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 127 · Entry 852
Vigeant entry VIG-P062-E003
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 62 · Entry VIG-P062-E003
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Primary edition Arte di maneggiar la spada a piedi et a cavallo
Publisher Francesco Castello
City Loano
Format 4to
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