{"id":4624,"date":"2026-05-15T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/?post_type=product&p=4624"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:52:29","slug":"crisol-de-la-verdadera-destreza-y-filosofia-matematica-de-las-armas","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/product\/crisol-de-la-verdadera-destreza-y-filosofia-matematica-de-las-armas\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisol de la Verdadera Destreza y Filosof\u00eda Matem\u00e1tica de las Armas"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francisco Lorenz de Rada (1660 – 1713) is the last great author — and perhaps the greatest — of the Verdadera Destreza, correcting and elaborating on the works of Carranza, Pacheco and Ettenhard. He was a soldier, a Knight of the Order of Santiago, Governor of Veracruz and, eventually, named Marquis of Torres de Rada. He studied Verdadera Destreza from the age of fourteen and was a fencing master and a prolific and exhaustive author. His magnum opus, Nobleza de la Espada<\/em> (1705), is a compendium in three books of more than 1,300 pages where he constructs, starting from mathematical and theological elements, a geometric and rationalist system for the use of the rapier.<\/p>\n

This work, Crisol<\/em>, is to a certain extent a precedent of Nobleza<\/em>, and also a previous stage in the theoretical and practical evolution of its author, in transit from Pachequism to his own expression. There are many parts that are reproduced almost verbatim in Nobleza<\/em>, but in Crisol<\/em> a more conventional scheme is followed, similar to other works of Destreza, in which the atajo<\/em> is described in a generic way (although distinctions are established between one side and the other) and then the Tretas Generales as operating procedures to practice Destreza, ending with a section dedicated to countering Italian fencing (which is notably increased in his great final work).<\/p>\n

This edition is of great value, since the only two copies of Crisol<\/em> that are preserved are incomplete. The text that we present here uses both sources to reconstruct the work as it must have existed.<\/p>\n

We have also carefully replicated and (in some cases, following Rada’s own instructions) corrected the 25 diagrams that accompany the text, which we present in our edition as fold-out plates.<\/p>\n

Overall, this title is a fundamental piece for any student of Verdadera Destreza, who will hardly find a more exhaustive or precise work in a modern edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[57],"product_tag":[225,226,64,59],"class_list":["post-4624","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-classica","product_tag-francisco-lorenz-de-rada","product_tag-rada","product_tag-verdadeira-destreza","product_tag-xvii","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agea.campusconexion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}