Camillo agrippa biography of donald

          [1] Camillo Agrippa (c.

        1. [1] Camillo Agrippa (c.
        2. Agrippa was Milanese, an architect mathematician, and engineer.
        3. Camillo Agrippa ( – 1 January ) was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance.
        4. About the Author.
        5. Camillo Agrippa was born in Milan, Italy.

          6. Camillo Agrippa ( – 1 January ) was a noted fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance....

          FENCING HISTORIAN Ken Mondschein has done the Western martial arts community a great service by translating into English the fencing treatise of the iconic ‘Renaissance man’ turned fencing master, Camillo Agrippa.

          Trattato di Scientia d’Arme (Treatise on the Science of Arms), originally published in 1553, is regarded by many fencers and fight scholars as the text that began the transition not only from the medieval ‘cut and thrust’ style of swordplay to the thrust-centric style typified by the rapier, but also the transition from viewing swordplay as an art to a science.

          Rightly so, Mondschein points out that in addition to scholars and practitioners of European swordplay, this text is a valuable resource for historians, art historians, science historians, and scholars of masculine identity in 16th-century Italy.

          In his Introduction (for which due credit must be given for managing to sneak in a quote from The Princess Bride), Mondschein begins