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18 February 2024

Das Fechten mit der Stoss- und Hiebwaffe in sportlicher und moderner Auffassung by Leopold Targler

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Like many of the books I have presented on the blog, this latest addition to my library is a book which has been largely neglected by histor...
28 January 2024

Refining the molinelli

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The large blade-swinging exercise of the Radaellian tradition known as the molinello (plural molinelli ) has been commonly misunderstood by...
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28 December 2023

La Scherma di Spada by Luigi Barbasetti

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It has been a long time coming for this treatise to finally become freely available for all, but at long last here is the Italian version of...
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19 December 2023

Scherma di sciabola: metodo d'insegnamento adottato presso la scuola militare di cavalleria

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It has been a while since we have taken a look at a non-Radaellian sabre text, and that has largely been due to such texts gradually becomin...
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30 November 2023

Bonaventura, the other Radaelli

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In the history of modern fencing, the name Radaelli is inextricably linked to Giuseppe Radaelli, inventor of the famous method of sabre fenc...
24 October 2023

A new doctrine for the Rome Fencing Master's School

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The official establishment of the single, national Military Fencing Master's School for the Italian army in December 1874 was the culmin...
20 September 2023

What are the differences between the Radaellian treatises?

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A uniquely fortunate benefit of studying Radaellian sabre lies in the amount of written material available to historians, the most significa...
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