Gran Simulacro dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scherma
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Contents
Manual Demographics
- Published in 1610 in Padua.
- Dedicated to the Duke of Urbino.
- # pages? including 41 plates.
Online Translations
- Translation with plates (pdf) by William E. Wilson and Jherek Swanger, edited by Roger Kay. Includes all the plates and is very nicely typeset and formatted, but is rather large (8.6 MB). Download this to print or to read on your computer. (Alternative URLs: 1 2)
- Translation without plates (pdf) by William E. Wilson and Jherek Swanger. Same translation, but not as pretty; lacks the plates, but is a much smaller download (<100 kB). Download this to read on your smartphone, or if you have a slow connection.
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.
