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Review: The Swordsmanship of Renaissance Italy
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Күн бұрынIn this quick video I will review the manual on "The Swordsmanship of Renaissance Italy" composed by a Committee of Sala d'Arme Achille Marozzo and published in collaboration with the Accademia Nazionale di Scherma (ANS). In short: If you are studying historical Italian Swordsmanship, you should definitely buy this book! :)
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@SchildwachePotsdam 3 жыл бұрын
So, to conclude: Great book, but I would like to see future editions tackle accompanying weapons and the polearms of the bolognese system as well as more detailed descriptions of body mechanics.
@dylanduke1075 3 жыл бұрын
Hi! One thing I’m really struggling with is understanding when to actually use one guard or another or what guard to use against what attack. I know Manciolino included some examples in his work and I found these useful but is there any other way of finding out what strikes/parries to use from which guards and against which strikes?
@antoniofarinaccio541 3 жыл бұрын
How about the Neapolitan school. Very often contemporaries speak of Italian art or fencing but in reality there was no political Italy in the Renaissance. In the renaissance many books wear published in Naples and Palermo but no one cover them. I do not thing considering its writers cover the Neapolitan school. The Bolognese school was influenced by the "German" as the Neapolitan by the Spaniard Armada. But with unification of Italy the Kingdom of the Two-sicily and Papal state integrated under one messy name as, "Italian any thing." Today the Bolognese is revived but many make confusion of the Neapolitan school that in 17th and 18th century was the only Italian school. There are books and very rare that no one reprints any more, I will mention two, " Della Scherma Napoletana" Discorso Primo Dove sotto il titolo dell'Impossibile Possibile si prova che la scherma sia Scienza e non un Arte. Si danno le vere norme di Spada e pugnale. il Signor Francesco Cantonio Mattei. In tis book it is mention that fencing is not a Art but a science. Seconda impressione in Foggia per Novello de Bonis. M. DC. LXIX. A second book, "La Scherma Illustrata Composta da Giuseppe Mursicato Pallavicini" Palermo 1670 a few years after the book published in Foggia. The Italian states gives credit to northern schools, arts, and culture and forgets wear it all started. It is not Italian fencing but Pontifical, Venetian, or Neapolitan. There was no political Italy and the modern state makes no distention, by promoting ignorance.
@SchildwachePotsdam 3 жыл бұрын
I agree, that the term Italian swordsmanship might be misleading, but it's a great book nonetheless. And since they did not only cite Bolognese masters, I think it's fine :) I'd love to read more contemporary sources from all of these regions. Alas, availability of translations is still a thing. There are a few over on wiktenauer, but there is certainly a lot more. I am currently dabbling in Lovino's manual again, which is Milanese. While he uses different terms, I think he has a lot in common with dall'Agocchie for example.
@antoniofarinaccio541 3 жыл бұрын
@@SchildwachePotsdam I do not know of any books available. In Southern Italy after unification every thing was assimilated in the the school of Rome. Milan has its roots with Neapolitan master and Hungarians. The Neapolitan School was founded with the "Nunziatella Military School" In the 18tk hundred by the Bourbons of Naples. Today is affiliated with other National School, but the oldest still in existence. I can give some masters from the Renaissance on words for now. Giacomo la Cuova, Pietro Villardita, Giuseppe la Cuova, Francesco Villardita, Leonardo Ciaccio. I leave you with these for now and look for more. Thank you, glad to help.
@antoniofarinaccio541 3 жыл бұрын
@@SchildwachePotsdam You are probably familiar with Masaniello Parise, he is considered the father of fencing in Italy. In 1844 he was director of Military Fencing Masters School and that same year it published the "Bible" of fencing titled: "Tratto Teorico-Pratico Della Scherma di Spada e Sciabola." There most be a translation. A second book in English: " The Roman -Neapolitan School of Fencing." The Collected Works of Masaniello Parise . Maestro di Scherma. Translated by Moniteur d'Escrime. Christopher A.Holzman.
@andreavincenti4007 3 жыл бұрын
Great review!!
@SchildwachePotsdam 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@logansites 3 жыл бұрын
Is there a book that you'd recommend as the best or first one a beginner should get?
@SchildwachePotsdam 3 жыл бұрын
I'd recommend this book as your secondary source and Giovanni dall'Agocchie as your first Bolognese fencing master. You can find a free translation on wiktenauer: wiktenauer.com/wiki/Giovanni_dall%27Agocchie If you like it, you should get J. Swanger's published version: www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/giovanni-dallagocchie-and-jherek-swanger/the-art-of-defense-on-fencing-the-joust-and-battle-formation-by-giovanni-dallagocchie-paperback/paperback/product-16ykdzvv.html?page=1&pageSize=4 Cheers :)
@logansites 3 жыл бұрын
@@SchildwachePotsdam thanks!
@logansites 3 жыл бұрын
@@SchildwachePotsdam order placed!
@joshuawiest5091 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Martin, is there a link for the book?
@SchildwachePotsdam 3 жыл бұрын
I added it to the video description, thanks! :)
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