Venetian fencing school

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The Venetian Fencing School refers to the style of fencing that prevailed in Venice at the beginning of the 12th century and until the beginning of the 19th century.

Man with Sword and Shield (Giacomo di Grassi)

The Venetians were masters of the art of fencing and shared the principles of fencing with their colleagues from Bologna . The earliest writings on Venetian fencing focused on the properties of various parts of the blade used in defense and attack. For this approach, the concept "was center of percussion ", the ideal spot on the blade on which a blow should be set. The blade was divided into four parts:

  • the first two parts from the handle should be used for protection
  • the third one near the "strike center" was used to strike
  • the fourth part at the top was used for stabbing.

The Venetian fencing school is characterized by the use of daggers, short swords , long swords , halberds , spears , and various types of shields. In the mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica from the 12th century and manuscripts from the 14th century, it is shown that the Venetian soldiers of that time wore round shields ( called bucklers ). However, the buckler was no longer used in the 16th century and employed a technique that involved using a sword in the right hand and a dagger in the left hand. The " sword and buckler technique " is marked as an event of doom.

The masters of the Venetian fencing school

In 1570 a certain Giacomo di Grassi published the treatise “ Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme si da offesa, come da difesa ” on fencing.

In 1606 the work of the fencing master Nicoletto Giganti appeared for the first time, a second edition in 1608 and a third edition in 1628. The first edition was published in 1622 in a German translation in Frankfurt.

The work “Trattato di Camillo Agrippa Milanese di trasportar la guglia in su la piazza di San Pietro” , the first edition of which appeared in Rome in 1583, was written by the fencing master Camillo Agrippa . Two more editions took place in Venice.

literature

  • Nicoletto Giganti, Tommaso Leoni, Odoardo Fialetti: Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum . FreeLance Academy Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825911-2-3 , pp. 80 .
  • Filippo Mariani, Francesco Stocco, Giorgio Crovato: La reinvenzione di Venezia: tradizioni cittadine negli anni ruggenti . Il poligrafo, 2007, ISBN 978-88-7115-558-6 , p. 194 .
  • Rob Runacres: Treatise or Instruction for Fencing: By Hieronymus Calvacabo of Bologna and Patenostrier of Rome . Lulu Press, Inc, 2015, ISBN 978-1-326-16469-0 .
  • Roberto Laura: The Sword of the People: History, Culture and Methodology of Traditional Italian Knife Fighting . tredition, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7323-5233-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rob Runacres: Treatise or Instruction for Fencing: By Hieronymus Calvacabo of Bologna and Patenostrier of Rome . Lulu Press, Inc, 2015, ISBN 978-1-326-16469-0 .
  2. ↑ http://worldofmartialarts.pro/archives/1423
  3. ↑ http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/File:La_Scherma_(Alfieri)_03.jpg
  4. ↑ http://worldofmartialarts.pro/archives/1274
  5. ↑ Nicoletto Giganti: Scola, Overo Teatro: Nelquale sono rappresentate diuerse maniere, e modi di parare, e di ferire di Spada sola, e di Spada, e Pugnale. Appresso Paolo Frambotto, 1628 ( online ).
  6. ↑ http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/NewManuals/Agrippa/agrippa.htm#.Wt8iiohuaUk
  7. ^ Trattato di Camillo Agrippa Milanese di trasportar la guglia in su la piazza di San Pietro. Francesco Zanetti, Rome 1583 ( online ).
  8. ^ Camillo Agrippa: Di M. Camillo Agrippa Trattato di scienza d'arme. Et vn dialogo in detta materia. Roberto Meglietti, 1604 ( online ).