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Traité ou instruction pour tirer des armes
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Traité ou instruction pour tirer des armes

Treatise 1609 French Italy

Girolamo Cavalcabò, Patenostrier

Gelli treats the Villamont translation of 1609 as evidence for underlying Italian works by Geronimo Cavalcabò of Bologna and Patenostrier of Rome, and adds biographical discussion about the Cavalcabò family and the later French court career of Cesare Cavalcabò.

Gelli's later French bibliography entry revisits the 1609 Villamont translation as a rare witness, stressing the four guards, the preference for the third in attack and the fourth in defence, and the early distinction between dedans and dehors.

Gelli records a 1629 witness for the Cavalcabo discourse and points to later related family states.

Castle also records the Rouen 1609 French Cavalcabò/Patenostrier translation by the seigneur de Villamont.

Vigeant 1882 revisits the 1609 Rouen Villamont translation and confirms the dedication to the marechal comte de Brissac.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleTraité ou instruction pour tirer des armes
AuthorGirolamo Cavalcabò, Patenostrier
Earliest publication date1609
LanguageFrench
CountryItaly
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Girolamo Cavalcabò; Patenostrier; translated by Jacques de Villamont
Fencing Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Girolamo Cavalcabò, Patenostrier
Edition History
Traité ou instruction pour tirer des armes 1609
CityRouen
PublisherClaude Le Villain
PrinterNot specified
Format12°
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Rouen, 1609, Claude le Villain. Gelli describes the Villamont translation as very rare, dedicated to the maréchal de Brissac, centered on sword and dagger, with a final section on single sword and cape attributed to Patenostrier.

Vigeant 1882, p. 131: Rouen, chez Claude Le Villain, libraire et relieur du Roy, demeurant a la rue du Bec, a la Bonne Renommee, 1609. In-12. Dedicated to the marechal comte de Brissac.

Quality phase 169: the exact Gallica witness shows that this text is contained in Le guidon des capitaines; host-volume totals are not a component extent.
Digital Witnesses
Gallica — Le guidon des capitaines (1609), containing Cavalcabò
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Bibliothèque nationale de France — Gallica · open
Exact host manifestation containing the fencing component; used for issue identity and component context, not an inferred extent.
Wiktenauer article - Traite ou instruction pour tirer des armes (Girolamo Cavalcabo)
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Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P081-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 81-82 · Entry CAS-P081-E003
Gelli entry GEL-P359-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 359-360 · Entry GEL-P359-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P507-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 507-509 · Entry GEL-P507-E002
Gelli entry GEL-P603-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 603 · Entry GEL-P603-E001
Gelli, Bibliografia della scherma
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 93-95 · Entry 002
Thimm entry 1642
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 253 · Entry 1642
Thimm entry 2313
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 374 · Entry 2313
Thimm entry 416
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 65 · Entry 416
Vigeant entry VIG-P131-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 131 · Entry VIG-P131-E001