Some Words about Italian Swordplay

Some Words about Italian Swordplay

How to employ the Vienna Anonymous to improve your practice - part 2

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David B
May 29, 2025
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In the first part of this series, I introduced the so-called Vienna Anonymous (VA) manuscript and explained why I believe it is extremely important to our scholarship concerning the Northern Italian system of rapier combat.

Then I started working through some of the lessons I took from the VA and described their importance to my own practice.

Here I’ll continue working through some of the things that changed my instruction, or that happily reinforced what I was already doing.

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