Hi Bill--=20
I've checked three sources for info about who may have been Camillo Agrippa=
's Fencing Master ("Schools & Masters of Fence" - E. Castle, "The Sword & =
the Centuries" - A. Hutton, and "The Art & History of Armed Combat " -A. Wi=
se), and none of them specifically mentions Agrippa's teacher. He was a co=
ntemporary of Michaelangelo, he was a mathematician, engineer, and an archi=
tect, but oddly enough, he, himself, was a theorist when it came to Fencing=
, and not a Fencing teacher at all! (This is according to Wise's book...so=
mething I was very surprised to learn.) He lived and practiced about 17 ye=
ars after Marozzo, and apparently simplified the more complex system of Mar=
ozzo; e.g., he reduced the eleven guards of Marozzo to a more logical, simp=
lified four positions (again, according to Wise) Egerton Castle's book ind=
icates that he was indeed taught Fencing by some unnamed person. (It may e=
ven be possible that he was influenced by several teachers... back then var=
ious teachers were sought out to learn "secret bottes" and the like to give=
one an edge (no pun intended) for any impending combat situation, whether =
real or imagined.) Anyway, those are the only sources I have that address =
this portion of Agrippa's life. Perhaps someone else has a resource that c=
an add to it from here.
Regards,
Warren Cabral
Bill Teel <gilesdancer@yahoo.com> wrote: Does anyone know who Camillo Agri=
ppa=92s fencing
instructor was? If so, what is the source of the
information?
Thanks.
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