Classical Italian Fencing

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[edit] Classical Italian Fencing

• Foil
• Epee
• Sabre

[edit] Maestri with Published Texts

• Giuseppe Radaelli written by Cav. Settimo Del Frate
• Cesare Enrichetti
• Alberto Marchionni
• Salvatore Pecoraro e Carlo Pessina
• Giorgio Pessina e Ugo Pignotti
• Rosaroll Scorza e Pietro Grisetti
• Ferdinando Masiello
• Giordano Rossi
• Masaniello Parise
• Col. Francis Vere Wright, who while not a master himself, published a book in 1889 on the the method of his Maestri, Masiello and Ciullini.
• Generoso Pavese
• Luigi Barbasetti
• Aldo Nadi
• William Gaugler

[edit] Terminology

• Blade in Line
• Engagement
• Eight Count Salute
• Invitation
• Italian Fencing Notation
• Line of Direction
• Legamento - Northern Italy
• Legamento - Southern Italy
• Molinello or Circular Cut
• Coupé , Descending Cut, Cut-over, Fendente, or Cavazione Angolata
• First Intention, Second Intention, etc.
• Sforzo or Expulsion, including Sforzi di Cambiamento
• Fianconata or Flanconade
• Distance or Measure
• Pattinando or Advance-Lunge
• Thrust Direct
• Thrust by Glide
• Thrust by Cavazione
• Cavazione or Disengage
• Lunge
• Passata Sotto or Botta di Cartoccio
• Inquartata
• Intagliata
• Parries: Simple, Circular, Yielding, as well as Beat and Sforzo parries