Italian Treatises from 1510-1640, with a Study of Palladini's Unpublished Manuscript, by Piermarco Terminiello.

In excess of thirty treatises on fencing were written in Italian between 1510 and 1640. This talk provides a comparison and overview of the contents of these treatises. In particular it examines the manuscript work of Camillo Palladini (c.1600). This appears to be a syncretic system, with elements identical or analogous to those in a number of disparate Italian sources; namely the Bolognese School, the Florentine School of Altoni and Docciolini, the treatise of Camillo Agrippa, as well as later rapier sources.

Part of the 2014 Dinner Lecture Series at Iron Gate Exhibition (IGX) in Boston, MA.