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The Art of Fencing: The Forgotten Discourse of Camillo Palladini. Piermarco Terminiello and Joshua Pendragon, eds. Leeds: Royal Armories; Wallace Collection, 2019. 256 pp. £55

Renaissance Quarterly, 2021-07, Vol.74 (2), p.588-589 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by the Renaissance Society of America ;ISSN: 0034-4338 ;EISSN: 1935-0236 ;DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2021.17

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    The Art of Fencing: The Forgotten Discourse of Camillo Palladini. Piermarco Terminiello and Joshua Pendragon, eds. Leeds: Royal Armories; Wallace Collection, 2019. 256 pp. £55
  • Author: Mondschein, Ken
  • Subjects: Fencing ; Geometry ; Handwriting
  • Is Part Of: Renaissance Quarterly, 2021-07, Vol.74 (2), p.588-589
  • Description: Sumptuous illustrations in red chalk, alongside a text rendered in clear handwriting, fix the practice of fencing in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth century forever in time like an iridescent butterfly on a collector's pin. Palladini disagrees with Agrippa's overwrought use of geometry (as did many contemporary and later writers), but he also takes issue with whether one should watch the adversary's hand or point (64); gives a deeper discussion of Aristotelian ideas of time as applied to fencing (60); and says that one should not turn one's face away from the adversary on the lunge (70)—though he copies Agrippa's illustration of this technique. [...]the core of Agrippa's work is neither these individual details, nor his quasi-Hermetic use of geometry to point out the mathematical unity of human understanding; it is a form of fencing that emphasizes an extended guard with the point of the weapon menacing the adversary, which necessarily leads to blade contact; which emphasizes the lunge; and which seeks to work in contratempo—that is, against the adversary's own movement.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0034-4338
    EISSN: 1935-0236
    DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2021.17
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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