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18 December 2018

The founding of Radaelli's Scuola Magistrale

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Here I have collected a few excerpts relating to the founding of what became the Scuola Magistrale in Milan, directed by Giuseppe Radaelli, ...
27 November 2018

Translation - Brevi note sulla scherma di sciabola per la cavalleria by Jacopo Gelli

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Only a month before the report from the 1889 commission that rejected Masaniello Parise's sabre method for the cavalry headed by Prince...
05 November 2018

The 1889 Rome Fencing Tournament

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Beginning with the 1881 fencing tournament in Milan , fencing tournaments were being held in Italy with ever growing frequency throughout th...
16 October 2018

Istruzioni per la scherma di sciabola by Arnoldo Ranzatto

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Today I bring you scans of another Italian sabre treatise, this time it is Istruzioni per la sciabola di sciabola  ('Instructions for sa...
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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 ...