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28 June 2020

The Right Tool for the Job

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We interrupt your regular broadcast to announce that an article of mine has just been published here on the Melbourne Fencing Society's...
18 June 2020

The republication of Marchionni's 1847 treatise

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Alberto Marchionni's Trattato di scherma was the first work to be published explicitly discussing the 'mixed' school of fencing...
11 May 2020

Translation - Sinossi della scherma di sciabola by Antonio Tinti

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In the period of history focused on in this blog, it is not often that one encounters a text without a named author or date of publication. ...
11 April 2020

La Scherma di Fioretto by Ferdinando Masiello

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Considered by many to be the leader of the Radaellian school of fencing in the decades following the death of its founder, Ferdinando Mas...
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20 March 2020

Translation - Lezioni collettive di spada e sciabola by Eugenio Pini

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Eugenio Pini is one of the most famous names in modern Italian fencing history, perhaps second only to Aldo Nadi. He was undoubtedly the fir...
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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...