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27 March 2019

Translation - Considerazioni e proposte per l'unificazione dei vari sistemi di scherma in Italia by Giordano Rossi

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As promised in the previous short biographical post about Giordano Rossi , today I bring you a translation of his only other publication asi...
14 March 2019

Who is Giordano Rossi?

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In making a list of the great champions produced by Radaelli, it would be almost unthinkable to omit the name Giordano Rossi. Although he di...
16 February 2019

The Parise-Pecoraro Method (Part 2)

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( Other articles in this series:  Part 1  | Part 3 ) In part 1 of this article we read that Parise had collaborated with Radaellians Salvato...
21 January 2019

The Parise-Pecoraro Method (Part 1)

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( Other articles in this series:  Part 2  | Part 3 ) By the time Jacopo Gelli published his booklet Resurrectio in 1888, he claimed that t...
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...