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Scherma - Giganti, Nicoletto

Scola, overo Teatro, in which different ways are represented, and ways of parrying, and of wounding with the sword alone, and with the sword, and dagger, 1606

Estimate

€ 500 - 380

Sold

€ 640

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Antonio and Giacomo de Franceschi, 1606. In 8 ° oblong. Typographic mark on the title page, Medici family weapons on the back of the title page, portrait, with 35 (out of 42), finely engraved copper plates by Odoardo Fialetti, worn and with stains, coeval parchment binding, defects.

Specialist Notes

First edition. The best treatise among all those published in the century. XVII is considered that of Nicoletto Giganti. Giganti was the first to simply call himself "master of arms" and had his treatise printed after twenty-seven years of teaching. His book is still considered today by the experts as a renewal of fencing, which was beginning to show evident signs of fatigue for having been bastardized with new actions and precepts taken inconsiderately on loan from foreigners: precepts already condemned for two centuries by the great Italian treatises. & Nbsp;
The work is sold as a collection of plates and is not liable to return. & nbsp;

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