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Libro de las Grandezas de la Espada (Luis Pacheco de Narváez)

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Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada
A Book on the Greatness of the Sword
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Title page from the 1605 edition
Author(s) Luis Pacheco de Narváez
Dedicated to King Don Felipe III
Place of origin Madrid, Spain
Language Spanish
Genre(s) Fencing manual
Publisher Herederos de I. Iniguez de
Lequérica
Publication date 1600, 1605
Pages 658 pages
Treatise scans

Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada ("A Book on the Greatness of the Sword") is a Spanish fencing manual written by Luis Pacheco de Narváez and initially printed in 1600. Pacheco's rapier manual carried on the tradition of La Verdadera Destreza begun in the 1560s by Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza.

Publication History

Libro de las Grandeza de la Espada was first printed in Madris, Spain in 1600 by the Herederos de I. Iniguez de Lequérica. A second edition was printed in 1605.

Contents

1r - 219v Rapier by Luis Pacheco de Narváez

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Copyright and License Summary

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Images Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía
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