Radaellian Scholar

Despite the geographical and linguistic proximities between Italy and Spain, there was relatively interaction between the fencing scenes of ...

Just one year before publishing the sabre treatise that would solidify his legacy in the German-speaking world, Luigi Barbasetti made his a...

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...

Although it has been well over two years since I had an opportunity to talk about Italian fencing in Argentina , my silence on the fascinati...

Due to a steady influx of Italian fencing masters in the first half of the 20th century, Germany was particularly fertile ground for the spr...

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...

Like many of the books I have presented on the blog, this latest addition to my library is a book which has been largely neglected by histor...

It has been a long time coming for this treatise to finally become freely available for all, but at long last here is the Italian version of...

It has been a while since we have taken a look at a non-Radaellian sabre text, and that has largely been due to such texts gradually becomin...

The death of Masaniello Parise, technical director of the Military Fencing Master's School, in 1910 marked the end of not only the life ...

Having already made available the 1873 and 1885 editions of the Italian cavalry regulations, today I am pleased to present the first volum...

With 2022 drawing to a close, I thought I would end the year by sharing one last text from my collection. This curious 78-page book entitled...

An advantage of studying the Radaellian lineage that I often emphasise is the number of treatises published by the graduates of Radaelli...