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The 'Lost' Second Book of Nicoletto Giganti(1608): A Rapier Fencing Treatise

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The 'Lost' Second Book of Nicoletto Giganti(1608): A Rapier Fencing Treatise

Nicoletto Giganti is one of the most celebrated Italian fencing masters of the 17th century. His widely-acclaimed treatise of 1606 promised a second work, which however was long considered lost or never to have been written. Nonetheless in 1847 Alberto Marchionni did describe a purported second book by Giganti, outlining its contents in reasonable detail. In 2012 Joshua Pendragon (as Guest Exhibition Curator for the Noble Art of the Sword exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London) and Piermarco Terminiello, determined that the 1608 edition of Giganti held in the Lord Howard De Walden Library, is none other than the volume promised by Giganti in 1606, and described by Marchionni. This is the only known extant copy, of a work whose very existence had long been considered no more than a rumour. A book sought after and anticipated for centuries. With a forward by Tobias Capwell
Country USA
Manufacturer Vulpes
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 377142
EANs 9781909348318
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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