Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise

CAMILLO AGRIPPA’S Treatise on the Science of Arms was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author — an engineer by trade and not a professional master of arms — was able to radically re-imagine teaching the art of fencing . His treatise was a microcosm of sixteenth-century thought. It examines the art, reduces it to its very principles, and reconstructs it according to a way of thinking that incorporated new concepts of art, science and philosophy. Introduction, glossary, notes, bibliography, 67 illustrations from the 1553 printing. First English translation, edited by Ken Mondschein— Google Books