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  • <p>To the charging-in wrestling, is that each one is the first, you should not only use charging-in,<ref>''Zulauffen</ref> rather you are trying and hunti
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  • <p>If your fist is not protected well by your dagger, you must always remember to stand with your ...thrust against this. Thus, you can injure your adversary’s fist, if it is not well protected by his rapier.</p>
    22 KB (3,733 words) - 02:49, 18 March 2024
  • ...s can not equally bear this yoke upon their shoulders, and that the art is not a harlot to suffer itself to be sold. And I wish to hold to a more useful p ...ory of the victor depends on the valor of the vanquished, thus the loss is not censurable if the reputation of the victor embellishes it.</p>
    180 KB (32,101 words) - 03:19, 18 November 2023
  • ...by the blood of the saintly Christ and by his five holy wounds, so you do not cut nor otherwise hurt me with anything that cuts, I mean, because when it
    8 KB (999 words) - 17:33, 15 May 2024
  • ...likely more to it than that. Cegando is probably "sawing", meaning slicing not chopping (Capoferro uses this term as well), but it could also mean "blindi
    8 KB (1,271 words) - 20:01, 6 November 2023
  • ...was a medical instrument for examining a wound or another point that could not be reached with one’s hand.</ref> against major failures, because it clim ...ed into another. Whomever you give this to drink, he falls asleep and does not wake for eight days. Take the fig-leaf-shaped part from the backbone of the
    31 KB (5,308 words) - 03:22, 25 October 2023
  • ...n includes a modernized version of the 1594 English translation, which did not follow the original Italian text with exactness. We intend to replace or ex ...n and am most fervently affected to serve your lords, for as much as it is not granted unto me, (in respect of your divers affairs) to apply the same, and
    329 KB (59,158 words) - 20:34, 25 March 2024
  • ...e [[Bayerische Staatsbibliothek]] in Munich, Germany. This manuscript does not have any fencing teachings, but contains a treatise on metallurgy that is o
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  • ...ted and coming from a prestigious Arab family, it seems his early work did not come to the attention of Muhammad V or VI (who he dedicated his work to), p ...Arab language, as well as a qualifier of who was truly educated and simply not a pseudo-educated charlatan. As a result, the work seems to be detailed, fl
    77 KB (13,797 words) - 18:05, 21 February 2022
  • ...ajor glosses (Ringeck and Lew), and this apparently inspired him to author not only his own minor gloss in 1561, but also an original teaching poem for th
    9 KB (1,534 words) - 21:07, 26 April 2024
  • ...batants, with approval of ancient martial fighters, if they will guide us, not discounting the faithful history by truthful and approved authors. ...ssary to watch always the hand with the eyes. That is to say, that he will not be able to dupe you. Going on, I say that if your enemy attacks you overhan
    40 KB (7,126 words) - 20:25, 5 May 2024
  • ...and thrust at his face if you want, etc. And the breaking is very bad and not the best, and if you cannot come any further, you can still help yourself w ...tch, go with your point firmly to his face and raise your arm high, and do not let him come from the Messer. Then, follow after the opening and his Messer
    18 KB (3,633 words) - 20:27, 28 June 2018
  • ...storians, it is neither comprehensive nor particularly innovative and does not seem to have been influential in its own time. ...when Capo Ferro signed his dedication on April 8, 1610. Don Federico does not appear to have lived up to the hopes of the author, nor of Duke Francesco M
    184 KB (32,066 words) - 03:56, 20 October 2023
  • ...nd cannot perform them. Namely, there are many masters of the sword who do not know the art of the Messer and cannot excogitate it properly. Who is able t ...to displace, they cannot perform any rightful art and this way, as they do not want to do anything but displace and they want to look at other men’s str
    33 KB (6,351 words) - 20:55, 28 June 2018
  • ...Arms''; multiple typescripts were produced of the final draft, but it was not published until the [[HEMA Bookshelf]] edition of 2022. A second English tr This was not a true second edition, but rather a re-release of unsold copies of the firs
    26 KB (3,494 words) - 18:45, 10 April 2024
  • ...being fellow Paudans: Bartolomeo Tagliaferro and Gaspare Magnanino. While not the first military academy in the Italian peninsula, it is recorded as the ...ben maneggiare la spada]]'' ("The Art of Handling the Sword Well"), which not only includes the entirety of the 1640 edition, but also adds a concluding
    135 KB (21,899 words) - 21:08, 29 March 2024
  • ...and grabs both of your arms and you to his (arms?) so let him push you and not to much against you. Notice when he wants to try to throw you or tilt, so k
    9 KB (1,268 words) - 16:39, 16 November 2023
  • ...te their shared characteristics, however, there are important differences, not the least of which is the vastly different order of the information. This d
    11 KB (1,671 words) - 19:38, 27 October 2023
  • ...was finally published (despite the date on the title page of 1628, it was not published until 1630).<ref>Thibault, Gérard. ''Academy of the Sword.'' Tra Thibault, although he does not explain until Plate 8, uses the term ''estocade'' to describe a thrust to t
    29 KB (4,376 words) - 21:26, 20 October 2023
  • ...cise of the bodie, because there is very great and necessarie use thereof, not onely in generall warres, but also in particular combats, & many other acci ...shew themselves virtuous, humble, and modest both in speech & action, and not to be liers, vanters, or quarrellers, for those which in this sort demeane
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