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24 September 2018

Parise's Method is Rejected

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As mentioned in my  previous article , on the 11th June 1889  Lo Sport Illustrato  reported on the verdict of a commission headed by the Duk...
11 September 2018

Translation - Italian Fencing in the Army by Jacopo Gelli

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One of Radaelli's most ardent defenders, Jacopo Gelli, wrote many articles throughout his career in defence of Radaellian principles. He...
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...