My translation of De Arte Gladiatoria (extracted from The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest) is here. […]

This article takes one play from Il Fior di Battaglia, and explains in detail why I think it should be done the way we do it in drill. You can find it here. […]

My book on Vadi’s manuscript De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi is available now as The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest. As with my first attempt at translating this manuscript I have released the translation for free, under a creative commons attribution 4.0 licence. This means you can do whatever you want with it, provided you give me credit for doing the work. The rest of the book includes a detailed introduction, a practical commentary, and […]