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23 February 2020

La Scherma della Sciabola e del Bastone a Due Mani by Alberto Falciani

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Seeing as it has been a while since I have made public any original fencing treatises, I thought I should get around to completing a transcr...
17 January 2020

The 1892 Genoa Fencing Tournament

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In this first post of 2020, I bring a translation of another detailed fencing tournament report, this time from 1892 Genoa. Published with t...
21 December 2019

Codice del Duello by Conte di Chatauvillard

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The scans I present to the reader today are not directly to fencing, but nevertheless pertain to a topic quite relevant to all those practis...
14 November 2019

The 1902 Grand International Fencing Tournament in Turin

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Jumping slightly ahead of the previous tournaments we have seen, the regulations I present to you today are from a tournament that took pla...
17 October 2019

La Scherma di Spada by Alberto Cougnet

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Today I present to my readers a book from my own collection:  La Scherma di Spada  by the sports journalist and amateur fencer Alberto Cou...
12 September 2019

The 1886 Varese Fencing and Gymnastics Tournament

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The tournament regulations I present to you today are slightly out of the ordinary, due to the fact that they also contain regulations for t...
19 August 2019

Point-in-line and Priority in 1901

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Around the turn of the 20th century, as fencing competitions became more and more common, we start seeing a lot more discussion on bouting r...