Rules of Many Knightly Armies

Rules of Many Knightly Armies

A couple of years ago I decided to start transcribing and translating Italian Renaissance fencing manuals into English. Inspired by my fencing teacher and his other pupils, I undertook this as my COVID project when actual face-to-face fencing was thin on the ground. Federico Ghisliero's 'Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii' or 'Rules of many knightly armies' has had much curiosity in the English speaking fencing community due to the detailed pictures throughout one of the three extant volumes (the other two were published with fewer or no pictures - probably due to cost).

It took several years and was published freely online in 2023. I enjoyed it so much that I have now transcribed and transcribed another text, Lucino's 'Dialogo del uso della spada' or ' Dialogue of Girolamo Lucino of Casalmaggiore on the use of the sword' - which is out for peer review prior to publication, likely next year. ​