Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Making Capoferro Accessible to the Modern Rapier Student
A Personal Journey
Who Was Ridolfo Capoferro?
The Two Faces of Capoferro: Period Literature Versus Victorian
Scholarship
Jacopo Gelli: The Main 19th-Century Source on Capoferro
Capoferro, His Treatise and Its Importance to the Modern
Student
Language, Translation, and Editorial Decisions
What You Need to Know to Tackle Capoferro
Additional Resources
Great Representation of the Art and Practice of Fencing
To the Most Serene Lord Don Francesco Maria Feltrio della Rovere,
Sixth Duke of Urbino
To the Kind Reader
General Table of the Art of Fencing
Here Follows the Great Representation of the Practice of
Fencing.
Beginning with the Explanation of the Difference Between Art and
Practice
A Few Recommendations about Fencing
Explanation of Some Practical Fencing Terms
The Plates and Practical Synopses
Some Principles Regarding the Cut
A Failsafe Way to Defend Against Any Attack by Parrying with a
Riverso and Always Striking with an Imbroccata
Glossary of Common and Useful Italian Rapier Fencing Terms
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).
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