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Venetian Rapier - Tom Leoni

Venetian Rapier

Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum

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Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2010
Freelance Academy Press (Verlag)
978-0-9825911-2-3 (ISBN)
CHF 36,65 inkl. MwSt
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This book takes you to the fencing School of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of Venice. This faithful translation of Giganti's The School by internationally-known rapier teacher Tom Leoni includes the complete text, original illustrations and an introduction on rapier fencing that will make Giganti's text easy to follow.
Perhaps no other weapon represents Renaissance Italian fencing like the rapier. But do we know how it was used and how it was taught? This book takes you to the fencing School, or Salle, of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of Venice, one among the period teachers leaving instructions on the use of this weapon. More uniquely, his 1606 text The School, or Salle is a veritable training curriculum, with its stepwise lessons and easy-to-follow explanations on the use of the rapier alone and rapier and dagger. This faithful translation of Giganti's The School by internationally-known rapier teacher Tom Leoni includes the complete text, original illustrations, and an introduction on rapier fencing that will make Giganti's text easy to follow. If you are a martial artist, a fencer or have an interest in European martial culture, this book belongs on your shelf.

Tom Leoni was born in Switzerland and grew up in Northern Italy. Since an early age, he developed a passion for antique arms and armour and Renaissance-Baroque culture. His meticulous research of Italian swordsmanship treatises helped him become an internationally-known teacher specialising in the Italian styles of the 1500s and 1600s. In 2005, Tom published an English translation of Master Salvator Fabris' 1606 rapier treatise Scienza d'Armi, one the of the most important fencing works of the late Renaissance. In 2009, he published a translation of Italy's earliest extant martial-arts treatise, Fiore de' Liberi's Fio di Battaglia (circa 1409).

Acknowlegements


Introduction


What we know about Giganti


What we know about Gaganti's 1606 Book


Giganti's Voice and Language, and a note on the Translation


Giganti and the Italian Tradition


What You need to Know to Tackle Gigante


The School, or Salle, by Nicoletto Giganti of Venice, 1606


The Guards and Counter-guards


Tempo and Measure


How to Deliver the Thrust


Why I Begin with Single Sword


Guards, or Postures


Explanation of the Strike in Tempo


The Correct Way to Gain the Opponent's Sword and Strike Him While He Performs a Cavazione


The Correct Way to Perform a Cavazione


The Contracavazione to the Inside


The Contracavazione to the Outside


Feints-Explanation The Feint of Cavazione From the Hand


How to Strike to the Chest With Single Sword-From the Measure and Parity of Swords


The Pass With Feint from Out of Measure


The Pass With Feint Above the Opponent's Point


The Feint to the Face from Out of Measure


The Correct Way to Deliver a Thrust While the Opponent Attacks You With a Cut


The Correct Way to Deliver a Sure Strike Using Both Hands


The Correct Way to Defend Against a Mandritto or a Riverso to the Leg


The Inquartata or Void


An Artful Way to Strike the Opponent in the Chest after Pressing Against Each other's Blades


How to Play Single Sword Against Single Sword, With Full-intent Thrusts


How to Parry Thrusts to the Chest With Single Sword


The Thrust to the Face, Turning the Hand


Counterattack with Cavazione from out of Measure


How to Use Single Sword Against Sword and Dagger


How to Parry a Thrust to the Face in Sword and Dagger


How to Correctly Parry a Thrust to the Left Flank


How to Correctly Parry a Thrust to the Right Flank in Sword and Dagger


How to Parry a Thrust to the Face in Sword and Dagger


How to Parry a Cut to the Head in Sword and Dagger


How to Parry a Riverso with the Dagger


Thrust to the Chest in Sword and Dagger


Delivering a Thrust While the Opponent Moves


Thrust Above the Dagger


A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Left Side of the Body Open


A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Right Side of the Body Open


A Deceitful Guard That Leaves the Chest Open


The Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike Above the Dagger


Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike in the Chest


Feint of Sword and Dagger, to Strike to the Face With a Cavazione Over the Dagger-point


How to Use the Sword to Parry a Lunging Thrust While Bringing Your Body Back


How to Parry with the Dagger with Your Body Back


Dagger-parry with the Body Back, with Simultaneous Sword-strike


Sword-parry and Strike to the Face


The Pass in Sword and Dagger, to Grapple the Opponent and Strike Him in the Face with the Dagger


The Thrust to the Right Shoulder in Sword and Dagger


The Pass in Sword and Dagger


Glossary

Verlagsort IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-9825911-2-8 / 0982591128
ISBN-13 978-0-9825911-2-3 / 9780982591123
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