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Acta Periodica Duellatorum
Acta Periodica Duellatorum – The Complete Collection
252,00 € Add to cartEvery APD book published to date, with a 10% discount.
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Arte de Esgrima (Portugese)
25,00 € Add to cartThis is the modern Portuguese edition of Domingos Luís Godinho’s Arte de Esgrima, a long-time out of stock classic from the AGEA editora fund that urgently needed to be revised and re-edited.
The Portuguese-language update was carried out by Filipe Martins, from the Academia de Esgrima Histórica, with help from Luís França. Between both, they prepared a modern and accessible version for easy reading, which is preceded by contextualizing antetexts and essays such as the legislation relating to swords in contemporary Portugal, or the role of fencing as an art in the cultural framework of the time.
In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). The book was never published, and almost nothing is known about its author’s life beyond him being born in Santarém. However, the text is of utmost relevance in the study of Iberian schools of fencing, since it is the single complete treatise discovered so far describing the old style, the one to be displaced by the apogee of Verdadeira Destreza.
The work, originally written in 137 folios that we present as in 230 pages in this current edition, includes instructions for the single sword, sword and rotella, sword and buckler, twin swords, sword and dagger, sword and cape, plus the longest known text on the use of the iberian montante.
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Arte de Esgrima (Spanish) 2nd Edition
25,00 € Add to cart→ After running out of print the first edition, we present this second edition with the correction of errata, some mistakes and the improvement of layout of some pages and the order of chapters. Also you can buy the new Portuguese edition through this link. And the pack of both with savings here.
In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). The book was never published, and almost nothing is known about its author’s life beyond him being born in Santarém. However, the text is of utmost relevance in the study of Iberian schools of fencing, since it is the single complete treatise discovered so far describing the old style, the one to be displaced by the apogee of Verdadeira Destreza.
The work, originally written in 137 folios that we present as in 291 pages in this current edition, includes instructions for the single sword, sword and rotella, sword and buckler, twin swords, sword and dagger, sword and cape, plus the longest known text on the use of the iberian montante.
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Classical
Destreza das Armas
22,00 € Add to cartAbout a hundred years ago, a man named Sousa Viterbo –poet, archaeologist, historian, journalist– undertook the major task of writing a portuguese bibliography of fencing books, which he published under the title «A Esgrima em Portugal: Subsídios para a sua História».
While the text gathered all the sources he knew at the moment of publishing, Viterbo kept researching and unearthing new fencing treatises during his life. Many of these findings he noted down in small scraps of paper which he kept between the pages of his own copy of the «Subsídios». We have managed to locate this specific exemplar, and from the notes Viterbo’s left within its pages traced back the whereabouts of the sources not listed within the printed copy.
It is one of these hiterto unpublished manuscripts which we now present: «Destreza das Armas», a compilation of portuguese Destreza translations and original texts.
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Classical
El discípulo instruido y diestro aprovechado en la ciencia filosófica y matemática de la Destreza de las armas (2 volumes)
45,00 € Add to cartA fundamental and, until now, unpublished work of which only one copy exists in a private collection not available to the general public.
Written by D. Diego Rodríguez del Canto, master of arms for the king in the 18th century, this work illustrates the late Verdadera Destreza, its evolution, and the beginning of its decline.
Exceptional among the literature of its genre, this treatise offers through its 434 pages 200 illustrations accompanying each explanation, showing geometric principles up to the decomposition of movement techniques, references for measurements, knowledge trees, etc.
The manual documents how the traditional Destreza adapts to new styles. Rodríguez del Canto created the innovative Doctrina Mixta, incorporating Italian and French techniques. The author cites Pacheco, Ettenhard, and Rada and structures his work into four treatises:
- The first treatise covers philosophical and mathematical principles, applying Arithmetic, Statics, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy; the measures of the weapons (montante, rapier, smallsword, and dagger) and the geometric postures of the three schools: the Iberian, the Italic, and the Gallic.
- The second treatise covers the Destreza categories, body and weapon measurements, lines and figures, the diversity of stances (plantas), steps (compases) and motions, the method of holding the sword, and the diagonal postures.
- The third treatise focuses on the six rules for tretas (Agregación, Atajo, Incluir, Transferir, Formar, and Librar), including the engavilanadas and encadenadas and the smallsword technique.
- The fourth details the use of sword and dagger or sword and cloak, opposition to the left-handed opponent (zurdo), speed drills, and fencing warnings.
Finally, the manual includes a catalog of sword blade manufacturers, with their marks, dated 1734.
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Espada Firme
15,00 € Read moreThe Espada Firme de Manoel Martins Firme is an eighteenth-century transition text in which the rapier is disappearing but the smallsword fencing has not yet completely supplanted it.
A work undoubtedly of interest to anyone studying the eighteenth century or, simply, for anyone who wants to have a complete view of the evolution of fencing in the peninsula throughout history.
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Minor
Grandezas de la espada
30,00 € Add to cartOne of the most important works on the Destreza. Pacheco de Narváez’s first book, in which he presents his system in great detail. Destreza in its early stages.
Essential edition; does not include critical notes or commentaries, only the standardized text. Basic layout.Also available on Lulu.com
