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Discorso di Camillo Palladini Bolognese sopra l'arte della scherma, come l'arte della scherma e necessaria a chi si diletta d'arme

Manuscript Italian Italy

Camillo Palladini

Unpublished manuscript with 42 original red-chalk drawings. The existing Thimm-aligned record places it circa 1560, while Gelli describes it as around 1730; the record therefore preserves the dating conflict rather than creating a duplicate manuscript work.

Castle places the Palladini manuscript around 1590 and mentions forty-two red-chalk drawings, adding a third dating witness to the already-conflicted record.

Vigeant 1882 dates the unpublished Palladini manuscript around 1570, again describing its 42 original red-chalk drawings. He regrets that it was never printed and says that, although the author follows Agrippa, he merits to stand beside Grassi, Capoferro, and Giganti.

Quality phase 357: current specialist description dates MS 14/10 circa 1600 and suggests Bologna only tentatively. Earlier bibliographic witnesses range from circa 1560/1570/1590 to an outlying circa-1730 claim; the conflict is preserved.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleDiscorso di Camillo Palladini Bolognese sopra l'arte della scherma, come l'arte della scherma e necessaria a chi si diletta d'arme
AuthorCamillo Palladini
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Camillo Palladini
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Camillo Palladini
Edition History
Discorso sopra l'arte della scherma 1600
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatManuscript, oblong quarto
Pages118 folia
Dimensions330 × 220 mm
Unpublished manuscript with 42 original red-chalk drawings. Existing Thimm-aligned evidence places it around 1560; Gelli instead describes it as circa 1730, so the public record preserves both datings as conflicting witnesses.

Vigeant 1882, p. 102: manuscript, oblong quarto, about 1570, with 42 original red-chalk drawings. Vigeant regrets that it remained unpublished and praises its originality within the Italian tradition.

Quality phase 357: extent and dimensions verified. The date is retained as a documented conflict centered on c. 1570–1600; Bologna remains conjectural and is not promoted to the city field.
Digital Witnesses
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Discorso sopra l'arte della scherma (MS 14.10)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Realigned to the correct staging source on 2026-07-18 after batch 4/5 alignment audit.

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 641: the image is an interior illustration rather than a cover, frontispiece, or initial folio.

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.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P044-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 44 · Entry CAS-P044-E005
Gelli entry GEL-P195-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 195-196 · Entry GEL-P195-E002
Thimm entry 1621
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 246 · Entry 1621
Thimm entry 1622
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 246 · Entry 1622
Vigeant entry VIG-P102-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 102 · Entry VIG-P102-E002