Opera nova dell’Arte delle armi
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The Opera Nova was an early treatise on rapier fencing by Achille Marozzo, a master of the Bolognese school, first published in 1536.
Contents
Manual demographics
Weapons/styles
- Single cut-and-thrust rapier
- Rapier and targa
- Rapier and dagger
- Equestrian rapier
- Two-handed sword
- Polearm.
Structure
Marozzo's work is divided into five books:
Book one - introduction
- Thanks/dedication
- Introduction
- Sword and brocchiero
- Grappling with the sword and brocchiero
Book two - rapier
- Sword and dagger
- Dagger alone
- Dagger and cape
- Sword and cape
- Case of swords
- Sword and large brocchiero
- Single sword
- Sword and rotella
- Sword and targa
- The twelve principal guards (with sword and shield, as well as single sword). The progression for rapier is in this section.
- Sword and targone
- Sword and targone against a polearm
- Sword and rotella against a polearm
- Sword and cape, against an enemy armed with a single sword
Book three - two-handed sword
- Two-handed sword
- The progression of two-handed sword guards is in this section.
- Grappling with the two-handed sword
- Two-handed sword against a polearm
Book four - other two-handed weapons
- Various kinds of polearms
- Using a rotella with two hands
Book five - grappling
- Culture of duelling, honor, nobility
- Empty-hand defense against a dagger (grappling)
- Dagger (grappling)
Videos
- Marozzo's Progression - by Lee Smith of Academie Duello on YouTube
External links
- Sala d'Arme http://www.achillemarozzo.it/it/trattati/marozzo.htm. The initial content for this article was translated from the Sala d'Arme site.
- William Wilson's facsimile.
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