Francis Vere Wright
Published: 2016-06-22
Total Pages: 102
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Excerpt from The Broadsword: As Taught by the Celebrated Italian Masters, Signors Sign and Ciullini, of Florence In 649, the Roman legions having been beaten in Spain, &c., on account of the privations they had undergone and the inferior arms they carried, a new' and rational system was introduced for delivery and guarding blows, and thus unite art with valour, valour with art, until the one, with the impetus of the other, soon became more efficacious. Duels were not fought in those times, the much abused repair of honour with the sword, but only fierce combats to the death to prove their art of fence. 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.