Position pour la garde entierce et le coup de tierce

by Domenico Angelo

$200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An elegant print from Angelo's renowned fencing manual L'Ecole des Armes During the eighteenth-century, fencing was a popular sport among the English royalty and aristocracy, primarily learned on the Continent until the Italian fencing master Domenico Angelo Malevolti Tremamondo established his fencing school in London. A riding instructor by trade, Angelo was born in Leghorn, Italy in 1716 and briefly trained with the celebrated fencer Monsieur Teillagory in Paris. After

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