Radaellian Scholar

In the past few months I have had an increasing interest in non-Radaellian sabre treatises published around Radaelli's time. The main re...

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...

Below you may find my translation of Poggio Vannucchi's 1915 treatise I fondamenti della scherma italiana , or, in English, The fundamen...

By the late 19th century Northern Italy was experiencing somewhat of a resurgence of interest in the art of fencing, with Giuseppe Radaelli ...

** 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...

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

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