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Regole della scherma insegnate da Lelio e Titta Marcelli

Marcelli, Francesco Antonio, Hercules, Dominicus Antonius · 1686 · Roma : Nella Stamperia di Dom. Ant. Ercole · 40 pictures

Regole della scherma insegnate da Lelio e Titta Marcelli is a 1686 Italian fencing manual printed in Rome by Dominicus Antonius Hercules, setting out sword technique for students of the art. Its numbered engravings show two fencers in armour and bare-legged poses, with lettered guide lines marking the stance and point of the blades, which a designer could use for diagrammatic compositions about distance, tension and motion.

Fencing · Swordplay

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library