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[edit] Italian Swordplay Wiki

[edit] Benvenuto al Wiki di Scherma Italiana!

Welcome to the Italian Swordplay Wiki!

The Italian Swordplay Wiki is an expertise driven knowledge base covering a wide range of Italian martial traditions. (See who we are.) While it will be focused primarily on swordplay, it will include grappling, dagger work, and other weapons from earlier traditions presented as a continually expanding resource and guide to other fencers working with the same material.

In addition to providing information about the Italian martial traditions the Wiki will offer :

Collections of lessons and class notes from classical and historically-focused fencing instructors.
Biographical information about the Italian Masters, their works, and their relationships to each other
Explanations of notation, terminology, and theory

[edit] How to Browse the Site?

The site has been organized to make navigation possible using:

A historical timeline of Maestri and their works
A loose categorization of fencing traditions
Search by topic or keyword
Featured Sections

[edit] Why ViaHup.Com?

The Italian Swordplay Wiki is a resource to those practicing the living Italian tradition. During a Classical Italian fencing lesson, the instructor will call "Via" to initiate the action and "Hup" to draw the final attack. We have found that each instructor seems to have their own particular intonation of the "Via! Hup!" and to us it represents the organic and personal nature of the larger family of Italian fencing.

[edit] Featured Article

Featured articles represent new and interesting content. We currently recommend the Ridolfo Capoferro article.

[edit] Traditions

[edit] Timeline

Note: Classical fencing has evolved from earlier forms of swordplay, but should not be seen as superior to them. All swordplay had a context for which it was used, and swordplay changed to match the changing contexts of its use. You can see the relationships between some of these people here.