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• Christoff Rösener
  ...fencing master|Master of the Long Sword]]. In 1579, he authored a treatise on fencing entitled ''Ehren Tittel und Lobspruch der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst On along the flat fields, and saw off to the side<br/>
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• Hugo Wittenwiler
  ...und weidalich mit dem langen schwert vechten da mit du on hentschuoch und on allen harnesch behuotest hend und allen din lib für aller hand wäffen fü ...ther and shove him from you with the other hand and keep your sword’s edge on his neck or set the point upon him and shove him from you, so you take his
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• Francesco Fernando Alfieri
  ...e prestige in Paduan society, and in the entire Veneto region. For example on 18 April 1638, in the year Alfieri published La Bandiera, the academy hoste ...ludes the entirety of the 1640 edition, but also adds a concluding section on the [[spadone]].
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• Jakob Sutor von Baden
  ...issen Lagern in Holtz zu schneiden, an die Handt zu nemen und in diß klein Format zu verfertigen. Wann dann ich meinem von Gott dem Allein mögenden mir mite ...g), absezen (displacing/parrying), ringen (grappling), einlauffen (running on/advancing), verstellen (deceiving), werffen (throwing), and nachdringen (br
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• Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al-Andalus
  ...II organised for the ''aqiqa'' (naming ceremony) of his newborn heir Yusuf on 19th June 1409, and recited a poem in honour of the ''amir'. His lack of at ...there seems to have been more interest in non-military works, with a focus on the arts, coinciding with a moderate political status quo between Granada a
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• Giacomo di Grassi
  ...(Giacomo di Grassi)|Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme]]'' ("Discourse on Wielding Arms with Safety"). In 1594, a new edition of his book was printed ...ay both how to handle all those weapons on horseback which here are taught on foot, as also all other weapons whatsoever.</p>
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• Salvator Fabris
  ...bris' disposal to illustrate it; it was ultimately published in Copenhagen on 25 September 1606.<ref name="Leoni"/> ...e University of Padua and there passed his final years. He died of a fever on 11 November 1618 at the age of 74, and the town of Padua declared an offici
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• Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli
  At the age of 52, Capo Ferro authored a treatise on the [[rapier]] entitled ''[[Gran Simulacro dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scher ...the actual fencing actions. You can view all of the painted illustrations on the treatise page.
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• Vincentio Saviolo
  ...0 and quickly gained a great deal of prestige; he seems to have also taken on the former school of Italian master [[Rocco Bonetti]]. There are a number o ...his, take a young Dog which hath not been accustomed to fight, and set him on a Bull, and you shal see him assaile him with more courage and fiercenes th
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• Johann Georg Pascha
  ...prolific authors on fencing of his time. He wrote at least fourteen books on military subjects including [[grappling]], fencing with the [[pike]], [[rap ...tle. Step with the right foot backward, and grasp with the left hand below on the Partisan (how Num. 3 shows). Place the same down, set the right foot t
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• Johannes Lecküchner
  ...in 1478, Lecküchner was consecrated as a priest. From 1480 until his death on December 31, 1482, he was employed as a communal priest in Herzogenaurach, ...'s teachings. A slightly abridged version of this treatise (probably based on a lost intermediary) was included by [[Hans von Speyer]] in the [[Codex Spe
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• Johannes Lecküchner/No illustrations
  ...st extant copies, but the precise separation varies from copy to copy. The format of the various copies has therefore been preserved in this table in order t | <p>[1] This is the art and charter on the Messer of Sir Hans Leckuchner of Nürnberg, which he did and put togeth
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• Hans Talhoffer
  ...02r]] of [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (MS Thott.290.2º)|MS Thott.290.2º]] (1459); on the other hand, the escutcheon and the mantling are quite different between ...mberg was elevated to a duchy in 1495).<ref>Internally dated and dedicated on [[:File:Cod.icon. 394a 16v.jpg|folio 16v]].</ref> This would be his most ex
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• Fiore de'i Liberi
  ...od student.<ref name="de’i Liberi Pisani Dossi"/> He further mentions that on five separate occasions he was forced to fight [[duel]]s for his honor agai Writing very little on his own career as ''condottiero'', Fiore laid out his credentials for his r
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• Paulus Hector Mair
  ...ty Council; by 1541, Mair was the city treasurer, and in 1545 he also took on the office of Master of Rations. ...izing the arts of fencing as a civilizing and character-building influence on men. Where Meyer sought to update the traditional fencing systems and apply
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• Joachim Meyer
  ...1561, Meyer's petition to the City Council of Strasbourg for the right to hold a [[Fechtschule]] was granted. He would repeat this in 1563, 1566, 1567 and ...ludes a brief outline by Meyer himself on a system of rapier fencing based on German [[Messer]] teachings.
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• Augsburg Group
  ...e the oldest entry in the group, and certain later treatises are dependent on it, particularly that of [[Albrecht Dürer]]. Other texts, such as the [[Go ...n Picture Book]] contains a wealth of high-quality illustrations, it draws on multiple sources aside from the Augsburg tradition including [[Hans Talhoff
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• Nicolaes Petter
  ..., Netherlands as a young man.{{cn}} He then joined the wine guild and went on to become a successful wine merchant. Petter practiced a style of [[grappli ...ext as "historically speaking, [one of] the [two] most important treatises on unarmed combat ever printed", and notes that "in many ways, the finest of a
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• George Silver
  ...Arms from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century. London 1956, p. 62</ref>. On March 24th 1580 (1579 in the old calendar then in use in England), he was m ...d Westminster with the challenge, and had it carried to Saviolo personally on the appointed day, Silver states that no formal match occurred.<ref>George
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• Henry de Sainct Didier
  ...seule]]'' ("Secrets of the Premier Book on the Single Sword") and printed on 4 June 1573, is known to survive; it seems likely that the others were neve | '''THE TREATY CONTAINING THE SECRETS OF THE FIRST BOOK ON THE SWORD ALONE, MOTHER OF'''
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