This latest translation is an essay by General Achille Angelini entitled Ultima Parole sulla Risorta Questione Angelini-Masiello intorno alla Scherma della Sciabola del Defunto Maestro Redaelli ('Final word on the revived Angelini-Masiello matter regarding the sabre fencing system of the late Maestro Radaelli'), which was published in 1888.
Angelini claims he was spurred into writing this after reading Masiello's divisive introduction to his 1887 fencing treatise. In this introduction, Masiello heavily criticises the commission which replaced Radaelli's sabre method with that of Parise, and also justifies his undying support for the Radaelli's principles in spite of all this. Angelini himself states that a large number of arguments contained in this essay of his were taken straight from his 1877 booklet Osservazioni sul maneggio della sciabola secondo il metodo Radaelli ('Observations of the handling of the sabre according to the Radaelli method'), with some additions dealing with quotes from Masiello's 1887 treatise.
It is predominately this article that Jacopo Gelli is responding to in his booklet Resurrectio, where he takes apart all of Angelini's obtuse logic.
An interesting thing to note is that Angelini mentions various articles written in defence of Radaelli's system by Del Frate, Arista, Masiello and others in the journals l'Esercito italiano and l'Italia militare between 1876 and 1878.
Special thanks to Chris Holzman for providing me with the scans of this document.
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