Radaellian Scholar

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

In his 1876 manual Del Frate describes the parries of 1st and 7th as being the same as the second movements of the molinelli to the head fro...

In Jacopo Gelli's 1888 publication Resurrectio , he quotes one of Radaelli's supposedly famous phrases: " Pasteggiare  la sci...

*** EDIT: New information has caused me to tweak my interpretation of the parry of low 3rd. Please refer to my amendment for this updated...

When I was recently looking through the beautiful plates in Del Frate's 1876 manual (a common pastime of mine), I noticed something tha...

T oday we shall be looking at Radaelli's Guard of 2nd, and some pieces of information that might provoke some thoughts on how we interpr...