Antonio Manciolino
| Antonio Manciolino | |
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 Illustration from the title page of Manciolino's treatise |
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| Born | late 1400s? |
| Died | after 1531 |
| Occupation | Fencing master |
| Citizenship | Bolognese |
| Patron | Don Luisi de Cordoba |
| Movement | Dardi School |
| Influences | Filippo di Bartolomeo Dardi Guido Antonio di Luca |
| Genres | Fencing manual |
| Language | Italian |
| Notable work(s) | Opera Nova (1531) |
| First Printed English Edition |
Leoni 2010 |
| Wiktenauer Compilation by |
Michael Chidester |
Antonio Manciolino was a 16th century Italian fencing master. Little is known about this master's life; he seems to have been Bolognese by birth and he is thought to have been a student of Guido Antonio di Luca,[citation needed] the master who also taught Achille Marozzo. His fencing manual is dedicated to Don Luisi de Cordoba, Duke of Sessa, Orator of the Most Serene Emperor to Adrian VI; this dedication may indicate that Manciolino was attached as fencing master to the ducal court.
In 1531, Manciolino published a treatise on swordsmanship called Opera Nova ("A New Work"),[1] which is the oldest extant treatise in the Dardi or "Bolognese" school of swordsmanship.[2] The 1531 edition describes itself as "corrected and revised" and was probably based on an earlier version printed in ca. 1523; this date is based on the fact that Don Luisi de Cordoba was only orator to Adrian VI between September of 1522 and September of 1523.[3] Despite the breadth and detail of his work, Manciolino's efforts were overshadowed by the release of Marozzo's even more extensive work on Bolognese fencing thirteen years later.
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Treatise
Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Introduction
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/First Book
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Second Book
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Third Book
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Fourth Book
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Fifth Book
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Main article: Antonio Manciolino/Sixth Book
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Additional Resources
- Leoni, Tommasso. The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino’s Opera Nova (1531). Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9825911-3-0
- Manciolino, Antonio. Antonio Manciolino's 1531 Treatise on Bolognese Swordsmanship. Ed. Steven Reich. Lulu Press, 2009.
- Manciolino, Antonio (in Italian). Opera Nova di Antonio Manciolino (1531). Ed. Marco Rubboli and Alessandro Battistini. Rome: Il Cerchio Iniziative Editoriali, 2008. ISBN 978-88-8474-176-9
References
- ↑ The full title was Di Antonio Manciolino Bolognese opera noua, doue li sono tutti li documenti & uantaggi che si ponno ha uere nel mestier de l’armi d’ogni sorte nouamente corretta & stampata, which translates to "New Work by Antonio Manciolino, Bolognese, wherein are all the instructions and advantages that are to be had in the practice of arms of every sort; newly corrected and printed".
- ↑ Both Dardi and Luca are thought to have published treatises in the 15th century that have since been lost.
- ↑ Leoni, Tommasso. The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino’s Opera Nova (1531). Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2010. pp 11-12.
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