Radaellian Scholar

Despite spending his whole career as a fencing master in Italy, particularly Florence, Ferdinando Masiello had influence that spread well be...

Depending on your definition of a direct cut , your view on how prevalent such cuts are in Radaellian sabre fencing may lie anywhere on a sp...

As a change from the usual Italian treatises that are shared here, today I wish to share my own copy of the Hungarian master László Gerentsé...

After a government commission organised by the Italian Ministry of War declared that Masaniello Parise's fencing treatise would become ...

In parts one and two of this series we looked at the political background of Masaniello Parise's sabre method in the army and how ther...

Left to right: Italo Santelli, Agesilao Greco, Masaniello Parise, Vincenzo Drosi, and Angelo Torricelli. In 1892, at the invitation of the B...

With yet another book from my own collection, this month we are taking a look at Primo Tiboldi's treatise La scherma di fioretto ('F...