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• Francesco Fernando Alfieri
  ...myself that it would not displease you, to see printed this pastime which you occasionally enjoyed to practice. Nonetheless I am aware of the scarce valu ...obeisant reverence, and Your Most Illustrious Excellency of benignity, to you I most humbly bow.</p>
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• Fiore de'i Liberi/Images2
  ...we four Masters seek to achieve advantageous holds through the techniques you see depicted here.</p> ...I win with my holds,<br/>And if I don’t leave you wondering what happened, you can count yourself lucky.''</p>
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• Fiore de'i Liberi/Images
  ...we four Masters seek to achieve advantageous holds through the techniques you see depicted here.</p> ...I win with my holds,<br/>And if I don’t leave you wondering what happened, you can count yourself lucky.''</p>
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• Achille Marozzo/Second Book
  | '''Capitolo 37. Of the first part you as agent and the enemy patient.''' ...a di ferro and your sword will be in the coda lunga e alta. In this manner you have returned to the same guard as used at first and await another turn to
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• Paulus Hector Mair
  ...he only known copy is in a book that Mair never had access to as far as we know (suggesting the existence of lost manuscripts). ...ve compiled this work of honour, myself had to experience, and such things did often have to hear to my vexation).
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• George Silver
  ...noble complements, to maintain the defence of their weapons whose virtues you profess. It agrees with your Honorable disposition, to receive with favor w ...noble cōplements , to maintaine the defence of their weapons whoſe vertues you poſſeſſe. It agrees with your Honourable diſpoſition , to receiue wit
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• Giacomo di Grassi
  ...ation includes a modernized version of the 1594 English translation, which did not follow the original Italian text with exactness. We intend to replace o ...all honorably used, although I practiced little or nought at all to teach you how to handle weapons, for the which purpose I was hired with an honorable
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• Johannes Lecküchner/No illustrations
  ...art and charter on the Messer of Sir Hans Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it.</p> ...art and charter on the Messer of Sir Hans Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it to His Highnes
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• Fiore de'i Liberi
  ...ei Liberi (one translation would be “Fiore of the Free Knights”). We don’t know for sure whether “Fiore” (“Flower”) was his real name or a pen-name ...d Combat) and “La Scientia d’Armizare” (Science of Armed Combat). However, you should note that the words ''Arte'' and ''Scientia'' do not necessarily hav
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• Johannes Lecküchner
  ...art and charter on the Messer of Sir Hans Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it.</p> ...art and charter on the Messer of Sir Hans Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put together himself, the text and the explanation of it to His Highnes
  468 KB (81,340 words) - 16:05, 17 November 2023
• Federico Ghisliero
  ...iero''' (Ghislieri; d. 1619) was a Bolognese soldier and fencer. Little is know about his early life, but he came from a Bolognese family and studied fenci ...lf, nevertheless, by reading it, Your Illustriousness will understand that you will be able to see much more than your own strength and merit would allow.
  299 KB (50,043 words) - 00:45, 29 March 2024
• Joachim Meyer
  ...cludes key elements of his dusack teachings; it is unclear why this method did not appear in his book, but given the dates it may be that they represent h ...ght be unremarkable). However, Your Princely Grace, I am most hopeful that you will graciously accept and embrace such a work as I have done, which has be
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• Hans Talhoffer
  ...with Jacotin Plouvier in Valencienne; if this were Talhoffer, his training did little good as Coquel lost the duel and died in brutal fashion.{{cn}} Not only did Talhoffer produce at least three distinct treatises in his lifetime, but hi
  282 KB (45,209 words) - 16:24, 17 November 2023
• Henry de Sainct Didier
  ...l, more than great to pray to the Sovereign Rector of the Universe to give you a long and happy life, and for the boundary of your Empire to only be the S ...me time some strike or strikes that one can throw, and thus if they do not know how can they teach their disciples.
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• Philibert de la Touche
  the whole of Europe in suspens, but that he also deigned to know and favor ...to make their weapons fearsome to all their neighbors way too much, not to know
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• Hans Talhoffer/Complete
  | <strong style="color:#A40000">Now mark this bond that you need to understand:</strong> ...ght and protective; and that he be pious / sober; and that he not embezzle you; and that he not shorten / beguile the lore; and that he wits to broaden th
  202 KB (33,982 words) - 05:00, 26 November 2020
• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 12-22
  ...same intent and the same follow-on exactly as we show here, nevertheless, you will find yourself often enough in similar situations such as these by chan ...ways approaches by moving to the side. Because he knows his enemy does not know how to parry the slightest strike without creating an angle. But if he does
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• Gérard Thibault d'Anvers/Plates 1-11
  ...ul movements more easily and promptly than other animals do. What one must know that it is ordinarily, and properly, the job of the arms and hands to carry ...fence, but to Man, who appears deprived, was blessed with Understanding to know things, Wit to forge things, and Hands to use each and every thing that he
  896 KB (162,560 words) - 20:00, 26 January 2024
• Nicolaes Petter
  ...tel-Konst]]'' ("Clear Education in the Magnificent Art of Wrestling"), but did not publish it before his death in 1672. His widow inherited the manuscript ...who know nothing about your reasonable protection will highly wonder, and you will be able to move easily among people without being insulted.
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• Paride del Pozzo
  ...ed him that after the first throws he was overthrown and defeated, just as did the king David to the giant Goliath, who he killed with stones.</p> ...says "For love are great things done, and guard against any advantage that you receive no harm".</p>
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