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La picca e la bandiera, nelle quale si mostra per via di figure una facile e nuova pratica, ed il maneggio e l'uso di essa, con la diffesa della spada

Treatise 1641 Italian Italy

Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri

Pike-and-flag treatise by Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri, printed at Padua in 1641.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleLa picca e la bandiera, nelle quale si mostra per via di figure una facile e nuova pratica, ed il maneggio e l'uso di essa, con la diffesa della spada
AuthorFrancesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Earliest publication date1641
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeTreatise
Swordsmanship PikeSword
Authority Roles
Author
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Edition History
La picca e la bandiera, nelle quale si mostra per via di figure una facile e nuova pratica, ed il maneggio e l'uso di essa, con la diffesa della spada 1641
CityPadova
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
Format4°
PagesTwo parts: 24 and 38 leaves
DimensionsNot specified
Source pages: 10,11. Bracketed notes: ["Avec le portrait et blason de Lud. di Vidman, le portrait d'Alfieri, 12 gravures pour la picca, et 28 la bandiera, de l'école de J. Callot."]

Quality phase 286: Folger confirms the exact Padua 1641 two-part manifestation. A contemporary-volume description and specialist copy census distinguish 12 pike scenes and 27 flag scenes; the apparent 39/40 discrepancy is a portrait-counting convention. Sources: https://catalog.folger.edu/record/361813 ; https://www.echarp.be/fb/fb42.pdf

Quality phase 458: exact copy description supplies the two-part collation and illustration programme of Alfieri’s Padua 1641 Sardi edition.
Digital Witnesses
Alfieri La picca e la bandiera exact copy
Catalogue PDF
Robin Halwas · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 458 (50-edition batch).

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=direct_document_candidate. The URL resolves to a PDF; its opening leaves can be checked for an exact cover or title page. External probe: HTTP 200; content type application/pdf.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=document_reviewed_no_exact_cover; document checked; it was secondary, non-exact, low-resolution, or did not supply a suitable cover for this manifestation.
Scholarly References
Thimm entry 53
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 10,11 · Entry 53