Giuseppe Colombani is known as l'Alfier lombardo (the Pride of Lombardy)[1] He is unrelated to Francesco Alfieri - the Italian word l'Alfier(e) means "the standard bearer". He wrote a treatise on martial arts, published in 1711. It is the latest known treatise discussing the spadone, or longsword, before the revivalist movements of historical fencing in the 20th century.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Affò, Ireneo (1833). Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiani racolte dal Padre Affò,... (in Italian). Stamperia reale [Bodoni].
- ^ Gambaccini, Piero (2003-12-18). Mountebanks and Medicasters: A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1606-6.
- ^ Katritzky, M. A. (2017-03-02). Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-87154-9.
- ^ Cervellin, Gianfranco (2024-02-02). Alla ricerca della guarigione: Storie di medicina (in Italian). Mimesis. ISBN 979-12-223-0934-7.
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