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In 1870s Italy, competitive fencing was very much still in its infancy. The dominant fencing events of the time were exhibitions: non-compet...

Although Luigi Barbasetti's seminal 1899 treatise  Das Säbelfechten  is sometimes cited as the first German-language treatise to be publ...

As the recently unified Kingdom of Italy struggled to stabilise the economic conditions in Southern Italy, a great wave of emigration took p...

This most recent addition to my personal collection entitled Fechten im Bild  (literally 'Fencing in picture') is more of a novelty ...

Throughout the 19th century, sabre fencing in southern Italy was always considered a secondary discipline to sword (foil) fencing, a prefere...

The comparative lightness of Italian fencing sabres was something that foreign commentators took particular note of in the 1890s as Italian ...