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08 March 2018

I fondamenti della scherma italiana by Poggio Vannucchi

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** EDIT: My translation of this treatise may now be found here . **   Below you will find the link to scans of Poggio Vannucchi's 1915 f...
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13 February 2018

1853 Italian Cavalry Sabre Exercise

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Today I present the scans of the Italian military sabre exercise  Istruzione pel maneggio della sciabola approvata dal Ministero della Guerr...
31 January 2018

Radaelli's Military Campaign in 1859

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If you have read Jacopo Gelli's short biography of Giuseppe Radaelli , you may remember that he served in the Monferrato Light Cavalry ...
18 January 2018

Pasteggio and Radaelli's Sabre Grip

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In Jacopo Gelli's 1888 publication Resurrectio , he quotes one of Radaelli's supposedly famous phrases: " Pasteggiare  la sci...
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14 December 2017

Translation - Quattro Parole sulla Scherma by Salvatore Arista

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A few years after Salvatore Arista published his highly critical and reactionary Del progresso della scherma in Italia , an article written ...
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22 November 2017

Translation - Del progresso della scherma in Italia by Salvatore Arista

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After the 1884 Commission which replaced Radaelli's fencing masters school in Milan with that of Parise in Rome, there was naturally a l...
08 November 2017

Who is Salvatore Arista?

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Since I will soon be releasing translations of a couple of this man's articles, I thought it prudent to explain who Salvatore Maria Aris...