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De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana
On the Philosophy of Arms and its Skill, and Christian
Offense and Defense
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Title page of the 1569 edition
Author(s) Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
Dedicated to Duke Alonso de Guzmán
Place of origin Medina-Sidonia, Spain
Language Spanish
Genre(s) Fencing manual
Publication date 1569, 1582, 1612, 1616
Pages 599 pages
Treatise scans

De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana ("On the Philosophy of Arms and its Skill, and Christian Offense and Defense") is a Spanish fencing manual written by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza and initially printed in 1569. Carranza's treatise presented a new system of rapier fencing based on geometry which he called la Verdadera Destreza ("The True Skill").

Publication History

Although - according to the preface - completed as early as 1569 De la Filosofia de las Armas y de su Destreza y la Aggression y Defensa Cristiana was first printed in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1582. Printing was renewed in 1612 by Carranza's student Luis Pacheco de Narváez in Madrid, Spain.

Contents

Page Section
1r - 8v Preface by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
9r - 64r First Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
64v - 133v Second Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
134r - 205v Third Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza
206r - 280v Fourth Dialogue by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza

Gallery

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