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Assume for a second I went crazy and wanted to actually read Capo Ferro.

What would be my best source for this? I'd need a translation, not speaking Italian (let alone 1600s so), but I would like to see the original words too as I figure some feeling of them is possible to gain by vague understanding of other related languages.

Hi
You can download a free translation by Jherek Swanger and William Wilson (thanks gents!) here: http://mac9.ucc.nau.edu/manuscripts/pcapo/EngCF.pdf
or buy Jared Kirby's Italian Rapier Combat. Mr Kirby leaves a lot more of the original language in.


Yours
GW

Thank you!

I suppose I will start from the free downloadable version, simply because that's what I'd recommend to others.

Capo Ferro of Cagli was a fencing master in the city of Siena who published a rapier fencing manual in Italy.Capoferro's treatise is divided into two parts: Art and Practice.

In case someone else hasn't noticed, Roger Kay has put together Swanger & Wilson's translation and the original pictures into a VERY nice PDF:

http://mac9.ucc.nau.edu/manuscripts/CapoFerro-GRAUF.pdf