Radaellian Scholar

A recurring topic on this blog has been the internal and external pressures placed on the Military Fencing Master's School in both the R...

The year 1910 is a pivotal one in the history of Radaellian fencing. For starters, less than a month into the year came the untimely death o...

Foil fencing equipment from Enrichetti (1871). Source: KU Leuven When comparing a French and Italian foil as they are commonly made today, i...

Two years ago on this blog we took an in-depth look at the 1902 editions of Masiello's treatises for foil and sabre and compared what ch...

The large blade-swinging exercise of the Radaellian tradition known as the molinello (plural molinelli ) has been commonly misunderstood by...

A uniquely fortunate benefit of studying Radaellian sabre lies in the amount of written material available to historians, the most significa...