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10 August 2018

The 1891 Fencing Exhibition in Trieste

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I present to you here a translation of an article published on the 6th January 1891 in the Trieste newspaper L'Indipendente , reporting ...
19 July 2018

Metodo per la scherma di sciabola by Pietro Duelli

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In this third instalment of non-Radaellian treatises I present Metodo per la scherma di sciabola ('Method for sabre fencing') by Pie...
03 July 2018

Breve trattato sul maneggio della sciabola by Giovanni Battista Ferrero

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Continuing on from last month's non-Radaellian treatise, this week I present a short work published in Turin in 1868 by Giovanni Battist...
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19 June 2018

Trattato teorico-pratico di scherma della sciabola by Federico Cesarano

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In the past few months I have had an increasing interest in non-Radaellian sabre treatises published around Radaelli's time. The main re...
07 June 2018

Parries of 1st and 7th - "A little forward"

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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...
13 May 2018

Translation - I fondamenti della scherma italiana by Poggio Vannucchi

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Below you may find my translation of Poggio Vannucchi's 1915 treatise I fondamenti della scherma italiana , or, in English, The fundamen...
09 April 2018

The 1881 Milan Fencing Tournament

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