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Lo Spadone. Dove si mostra per via di figura il maneggio e l'uso di esse

Treatise 1653 Italian Italy

Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri

Two-handed sword treatise by Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri, printed at Padua in 1653. Thimm preserves a fragmentary frontispiece-style witness identifying Alfieri as maestro d'arme of the Accademia Delia in Padua. Vigeant 1882 strengthens the record by calling it a specialist work devoted exclusively to the two-handed sword, noting seventeen engraved plates with some repetition, and judging it the only fully special treatise of its kind known to him in the seventeenth century.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleLo Spadone. Dove si mostra per via di figura il maneggio e l'uso di esse
AuthorFrancesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Earliest publication date1653
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Authority Roles
Author
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Edition History
Lo Spadone. Dove si mostra per via di figura il maneggio e l'uso di esse 1653
CityPadova
PublisherS. Sardi
PrinterNot specified
Format4°
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Padua, per Sebastiano Sardi, 1653. Small 4to. Seventeen copper-engraved plates, one printed outside the text; several plates repeat. Vigeant 1882, p. 27. Treated by Vigeant as a rare specialist two-handed-sword treatise.

Quality phase 290: The exact Padua 1653 specialist treatise is described with seventeen copper engravings, one printed outside the text.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm bibliography — phase 458 edition 335
Catalogue PDF
Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 458 (50-edition batch).
Scholarly References
Gelli, Bibliografia della scherma
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 53 · Entry 002
Thimm entry 57
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 10,11 · Entry 57
Thimm entry 58
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 11 · Entry 58
Vigeant entry VIG-P027-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 27 · Entry VIG-P027-E001