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One of the most distinguishing aspects of Italian sabre fencing, at least in the opinion of foreign commentators in the 1890s, was the fact ...

*** Update: A third set of student notes has been found, as detailed here . *** The period of study which this blog predominantly concerns i...

After the military fencing master's school in Rome was indefinitely closed at the end of 1914 as part of Italy's military preparatio...

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...