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Girolamo Cavalcabo Rapier Fencing

Italian-French Renaissance HEMA treatise from 1597 focused on rapier and dagger fencing.

AuthorGirolamo Cavalcabò
Dating1597

Girolamo Cavalcabo of Rome served as a fencing master at the French royal court. His 1597 treatise forms a key bridge between the Italian and French HEMA schools, teaching elegant stabbing fencing with the rapier and left dagger.