Gran Simulacro dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scherma
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Manual Demographics
- Published in 1610 in Padua.
- Dedicated to the Duke of Urbino.
- # pages? including 41 plates.
Online Translations
- Translation(pdf) by William E. Wilson and Jherek Swanger.
Published Translations
- Italian Rapier Combat Translator Jared Kirby
Published Interpretive Works
- The Duelist's Companion by Guy Windsor
- Arte of Defense by William Wilson
Weapons/Styles
The manual covers the following weapon styles:
Sections
Capo Ferro's manual is divided into 4 parts.
The Art of Fencing
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Of Fencing in General
- Chapter 2: The Definition of Fencing and It's Declaration
- Chapter 3: The division of fencing that is posed in the knowledge of the sword
- Chapter 4: On Measure
- Chapter 5: Of Tempo
- Chapter 6: Of the body, and chiefly of the head
- Chapter 7: Of the torso
- Chapter 8: Of the arms
- Chapter 9: Of the thighs, calves, of the feet, and of the pace
- Chapter 10: Of defense, of the guard
- Chapter 11: On the way of seeking the measure
- Chapter 12: Of striking
- Chapter 13: Of the dagger
The Use of Fencing
- Introduction
- Some admonitions, or advisements of fencing.
- Of parrying, and striking, and covering the body.
- The virtue of the single sword.
- Way of becoming a perfect player.
- Of the most secure guard.
- Of the vanity of the feints.
- From whom one must learn.
- Chapter 9: Of the dagger
- Of gaining the sword.
- Of striking in countertempo.
- Of walking.
- Method of striking the hand.
- Method of recovering oneself having struck.
The Terms of the Use
- Introduction
- Of the sword.
- Of the guards.
- Of the tempo.
- Of the measure.
- In how many tempos ones knows to strike.
- Of the pace and of walking.
- Of the parries.
- Of the feints and of covering the sword.
- Of changing guard, in guard.
- Against those who void.
- Against the guard of the left foot.
- Of constraining the sword.
- Most useful admonition in regard to dominating the sword.
- Of the disengage and counter-disengage.
- Of Striking.
- Of the cut.
- Of the thrust.
The Plates
- Plates 1 through 5: The Guards and the Lunge.
- Plates 6 through 14: Ways of striking on the outside.
- Plate 6: (Instructional) Way of gaining the sword on the inside.
- Plate 7: Thrust of second following constraint of the opponent on the inside.
- Plate 8: Countering a cut to the leg.
- Plate 9: Passing thrust of second following constraint on the inside.
- Plate 10: Countering a rising reverse cut.
- Plate 11: 5 methods of striking under the sword (with contact).
- Plate 12: Low, two handed passing thrust of third.
- Plate 13: The "scanatura".
- Plate 14: 2 methods of striking under the sword without contact.
- Plates 15 through 20: Ways of striking on the inside.
- Plate 15: (Instructional) Gaining the sword on the inside and outside.
- Plate 16: Thrust of fourth following constraint of the opponent on the outside.
- Plate 17: Void of the right foot.
- Plate 18: Passing thrust of fourth.
- Plate 19: Void of the left foot.
- Plate 20: Beat on the inside followed by a passing thrust of second and seizure of the opponent's arm.
- Plates 21 through 35: Plays of sword and dagger.
- Plate 21: (Instructional) Constraining with sword and dagger.
- Plate 22: Inside cover with the dagger.
- Plate 23: Feint in fourth outside the dagger, disengaging over to thrust in second between the weapons.
- Plate 24: Reverse-thrust disarm.
- Plate 25: High dagger parry, responding to a false-edge thrust.
- Plate 26: Thrust of fourth on the inside with sword and dagger united.
- Plate 27: Feint in second outside the dagger, disengaging under to thrust in fourth between the weapons.
- Plate 28: Keeping the opponent on the outside by supporting the thrust of second under the arm with the dagger.
- Plate 29: Thrust of second on the inside via a beat to the sword and disengage of the dagger in one tempo.
- Plate 30: Feint between the weapons, disengaging to thrust in second outside the dagger.
- Plate 31: Striking upwards between the weapons.
- Plate 32: Dagger cover beneath a thrust of fourth between the weapons.
- Plate 33: Reverse pass lunge thrusting between the weapons in third.
- Plate 34: Reverse pass lunge thrusting outside the dagger in second.
- Plate 35: Thrust of third in the tempo of the opponent's dagger cover.
- Plates 36 and 37: Plays of the cape.
- Plate 38: Opposing a left handed fencer.
- Plate 39: Meeting a cut with sword and dagger crossed.
- Plates 40 and 41: Strikes with the dagger.
- Plates 42 and 43: Plays of the Rotella.
Notes
- In plates 6 and 15 Capo Ferro describes the constraining technique that is applied in all of the plays.
- The initial play of plate 10 counters the intelligent play of plate 8.
- The initial play of plates 19 and 20 are both counters to a false-edge thrust.
