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Ridolfo Capoferro's Gran Simulacro
By
Guy Windsor
Perhaps the most famous fencing treatise of the 1600s, Ridolfo Capoferro's Gran Simulacro is a wonderful book, and an essential read for all fencing scholars. Characteristically, he spells his name as both Capoferro, and Capo Ferro, in the book itself; just one of it's many interesting quirks!
It covers fencing theory, rapier alone, rapier and dagger, rapier and cloak, and rapier and shield.
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