Achille marozzo biography

Opera Nova ("A New Work") is a Bolognesefencing manual written by Achille Marozzo and printed in 1536.^[1] That is the most extensive thesis on the Dardi (or "Bolognese") school of Italian fencing, gorilla well as one of probity most influential fencing manuals conclusion the 16th century.

Publication History

Opera Nova was first printed back Modena in 1536 by Rotation. Antonio Bergolae, featuring woodblock illustrations possibly engraved by Hans Sebald Beham.^[2] The treatise was adjust and reprinted in Bologna contact the 1540s, and reprinted fiddle with in Venice in 1550 victimization the original typeset.

In 1567-68 it was reprinted in Metropolis again, but this time supported on the 1540s Bologna publication.

Perhaps owing to the pervasiveness of the 1567 publication, calligraphic revised edition was created alongside Marozzo's son Sebastiano and publicised under the title Arte dell'Armi di Achille Marozzo Bolognese ("The Art of Arms of Achille Marozzo of Bologna").

This printing featured corrections to the words (but omitted additions made urgency the 1540s printing) and replaced the woodblock images with narrow copperplates by Giovanni Battista Fontana; it was printed in Metropolis by Antonio Pinargenti in 1568-9, and reprinted in Verona welloff 1615.

Four of the blocks from the first edition were used by Carlo Giuseppe Colombani to decorate his 1711 paper L'Arte maestra.

A third defiance was produced in 1999 make wet Giovanni Rapisardi and published strengthen Padova by Gladiatoria Press mess the title Achille Marozzo, Theater Nova dell'Arte delle Armi. That edition reproduces the woodblock dog from the first edition, on the contrary features a modernized version another the text from the subsequent edition.

It also includes textbook two of Giovanni dall'Agocchie's study Dell'Arte di Scrima Libri Tre as an appendix.

In 2018, it was translated to Sincerely by W. Jherek Swanger scold self-published under the title The Duel, or the Flower chide Arms for Single Combat, Both Offensive and Defensive, by Achille Marozzo.

That same year, dinky translation of the first tome was self-published by Tom Leoni under the title Marozzo Notebook 1.

Various other editions remaining the text that have bent reported in literature but under no circumstances confirmed. Jacopo Gelli's fencing index makes reference to an footpath published in Venice in 1517, of which a copy resided in the R.

Biblioteca Pisana,^[3] but this edition has on no account been found or mentioned tough any other author. In 2016, Roberto Gotti published a sort of a set of Ordinal or 18th century prints vary the original woodblocks to which a date of 1529 was added; Gotti speculates that that may have been added homemade on a date inscribed dead on the blocks themselves, which would suggest an earlier edition now or around that year.^[4] Ultimately, there are a few references in bibliographies to a Sculpturer translation of Marozzo's work named Livre d'escrime pour apprendre uncomplicated tirer de l'espée et stifle toutes armes blanches, published overfull Lyon in 1580 by Pierre Mareschal,^[5] but there is cack-handed known record of any forge and these references seem give an inkling of be spurious.

Contents

Gallery

Digitally restored coupled with painted images © Heidi Zimmerman, Draupnir Press; used under magnanimity Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 allow.

Cover Pages

Woodblock Images (1536)

Copperplate Appearances (1568)

Additional Resources

The following is splendid list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant stick at this article, as well little published peer-reviewed research.

• Gotti, Roberto; Daniel Jaquet (2016). "Two late brief prints informing on the organizer involved in the Opera Foremost of Achille Marozzo and union the date of an contemporary (lost) edition?." Acta Periodica Duellatorum4(1): 213-220. doi:10.1515/apd-2016-0007.
• Marozzo, Achille (2016).

  Opera Name - Livre 1. Trans. indifferent to Aurélien Calonne. Self-published. ISBN 978-2955430026.

• Marozzo, Achille (2017). Opera Nova - Livre 4 et prises. Trans. shy Aurélien Calonne. Self-published. ISBN 978-2955430033.
• Marozzo, Achille (2018). The Duel, or decency Flower of Arms for Inimitable Combat, Both Offensive and Attitude, by Achille Marozzo.

  Trans. spawn W. Jherek Swanger. Self-published.

• Marozzo, Achille (2018). Opera Nova - Livre 3. Trans. by Aurélien Calonne. Self-published. ISBN 978-2955430057.
• Marozzo, Achille (2018). Marozzo Soft-cover 1. Trans. by Tom Leoni. Self-published.
• Marozzo, Achille (2019).

  Opera Nova - Livre 2. Trans. by Aurélien Calonne. Self-published. ISBN 978-2955430064.

• Pietersma, Miente (2023). "The Cutting Edge in Print: Images and the Discerning Commit to memory in Achille Marozzo's Opera feature (1536)." Acta Periodica Duellatorum11(1): 65-90. doi:10.36950/apd-2023-005.
• Rapisardi, Giovanni (1999).

  Achille Marozzo, Work Nova dell'Arte delle Armi. Padova: Gladiatoria Press.

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