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Excerpt from The Broadsword: As Taught by the Celebrated Italian Masters, Signors Sign and Ciullini, of Florence In introducing this translation from the work of Si gr. Prof. Masiello, it is well to mention that the Italian School of Fencing has for some years thrown the French and others in the shade. Amateurs have beat the most renowned Maitre d'armes at Paris, Turin, and Brussels, M. L. Merignac among the number, who at the International Exhibition last year, at his special request, fenced with chalked foils, and to his bitter disgust, received thirteen hits to his own three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Francis Vere Wright does an excellent job in this work from 1889 of translating the teachings of the great Italian master Masiello. In this work we get some very useful insights into the dueling culture of the time and how the Italian school of sabre was being taught abroad.