Reddit reviews Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum
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We found 4 Reddit comments about Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I think a great place to start is with Tom Leoni's translation of Giganti.
https://www.amazon.com/Venetian-Rapier-Nicoletto-Gigantis-Curriculum/dp/0982591128
a great resource for fencing manuscripts is http://wiktenauer.com personally i would recommend taking a look at Giganti a translation of which you can get right off Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982591128/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481352452&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Giganti+fencing
If you want to, there's a bunch of resources out there to learna little more. DnD and Fencing was where I started. /r/wma is a great place for all European Martial Arts, and there's a small pocket of rapier fighters. Martin Fabian's videos on youtube are a great resource, though I use a different master than he does. I study under Giganti's treatises, which you can find on amazon.
Well, for Bonetti, there isn't much to speak of.
For Capoferro, there's Guy Windsor's book, which is very good, and there's a new translation that's due sometime in December by Tom Leoni at Freelance Academy Press
There's a Thibault translation floating around for kind of a lot of money, and with a horrible typeface choice for the body text.
For Agrippa, there's Ken Mondeschein's translation, which also comes with a very academic treatment of the work, in the form of the introduction.
May I also recommend Tom Leoni's translation of Nicoletto Giganti's treatise. It's (IMO) the best period manual for the modern-day fencer. It's laid out like a lesson plan, and is short and to the point. It still assumes some contextual knowledge, but, hey, that's what this class is for, right?
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