Radaellian Scholar

Normally when I share a source on this blog it is to make a source freely accessible online for the first time; today, however, I wish to br...

Two years ago I published transcriptions of two interesting copies of Del Frate's 1876 treatise   Istruzione per la scherma di sciabola ...

*** This article was written in collaboration with Emerson Hurley of In Search of Lost Fencing . *** If one has done any reading on the hist...

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...

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