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Filippo Dardi

Master / Professor

Italian professor of mathematics and founder of the famous Bolognese fencing school (1443).

Quick Facts

Date of Birth15. století
Date of Death1464
Era15th century
Country of OriginItalyItaly
Rank / TitleFounder of Bolognese School
Active Years1443–1464

Biography

Filippo Dardi opened a chartered fencing academy in Bologna in 1443. A professor of mathematics, he applied geometric principles to swordsmanship, creating the Dardi tradition.

Associated Martial Arts

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The oldest documented layer of the Bolognese fencing tradition. Dardi taught both geometry and fencing at Bologna, and that geometric cast still shows.