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Dialogo Dall'incipit del libro: Benigni Lettori, l'Autore ha per intentione che voi trouiate in questi discorsi, modo & cognitione delle qualita & componimenti ch'auuengono tra tutte le parti, che contiene natura dal suo ordine gouernate, & amministrate dal suo volere, il quale non e altro ch'vbidire al Creator d'essa, scorgendo in ogni minima vnione & contrarieta di esse comporre gli accidenti, che qui sotto in dialogo si narrano, come per se stessa l'opera andra manifestando con ragioni & contrasegni quanto s'e detto; siche gli vedrete con amore, applaudendo alcune cose, sin che la mente...

Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author - an engineer by trade and not a professional master of arms - was able to radically re-imagine teaching the art of fencing. Agrippa's treatise is the fundamental text of Western swordsmanship. Just as earlier swordsmanship can be better understood from Agrippa's critiques, so too was his book the starting point for the rapier era. Every other treatise of the early-modern period had to deal explicitly or implicitly with Agrippa's startling transformation of the art...

Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author - an engineer by trade and not a professional master of arms - was able to radically re-imagine teaching the art of fencing. Agrippa's treatise is the fundamental text of Western swordsmanship. Just as earlier swordsmanship can be better understood from Agrippa's critiques, so too was his book the starting point for the rapier era. Every other treatise of the early-modern period had to deal explicitly or implicitly with Agrippa's startling transformation of the art...