Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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MAROZZO, ACHILLE
Opera nova... de l'arte de l'armi. [Modena, c. 1540]
4to (203 x 152mm.), title within elaborate woodcut border depicting knights in armour, woodcut illustrations (some full-page), with final blank, contemporary limp vellum (a remboitage?), f4-5 shorter (possibly in facsimile?), title-page slightly shaved at foot, small repair to P8, new endpapers
A reprint of the 1536 first edition, also printed in Modena and using the same woodblocks, of Marozzo's richly illustrated treatise on duelling. Marozzo was a Bolognese master swordsman; this treatise is considered the first substantial manual of fencing and includes rules for duels between noblemen. The numerous woodcut describe detailed manoevres by swordsmen in elaborate contemporary costume.
LITERATURE:
Edit16 65684; Sander 4384
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