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100 1 # $a Senese
245 1 3 $a Il Vero Maneggio Di Spada D'Alessandro Senese Gentil'huomo Bolognese. Dedicato Al Sereniss. Prencipe Ferdinando Carlo Arciduca D'Austria, Duca di Borgogna, Stiria, Carintia, &c. Landgravio d'Alsatia, &c.
260 # # $a In Bologna $b Per l'Herede di Vittorio Benacci. $c 1660. Con Licenza de' Superiori.
300 # # $a [14], 70, [2] p., add. engr. t.pl., 14 pl.; $c 302 mm. (Quarto.)
505 # # $a [Add. engr. t.pl., t.p., dedic. in Latin, dedic. in Italian] - [Four Latin poems to Carolus Ferdinandus] - Cortesissmo. Lettore - [Text and pl.] - De Regulis Necessariis, Atque Infallibilibus In legitima Ensis tractatione - Al Lettore - [Imprimatur].
508 # # $a The plates are unsigned, apart from the added engraved title-plate, which is signed as made by Ioseph Mitell.

The work is dedicated in Latin by Alexander Senesius to Carolo Ferdinando Austriaco Oenipontis &c. Archiduci, and in Italian by Alessandro Senese to Altezza Serenissima.
510 0 # $a Studies of the history of fencing include, H.W. Pardoel, Fencing, a bibliography (n.d. - after 1996); M. Bower, Foil fencing (1993); E. Castle, Schools and masters of fence (1892; 3rd ed. 1969).
520 2 # $a The added engraved title reads, 'Il Vero Maneggio Di Spada D'Alessandro Senesio Gentilhuomo Bolognese'.

The fourteen etched plates show positions in fencing.
561 # # $a The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S:A:H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
561 # # $a Purchased for RA Library in 1869 (see 'Library Report for the Year 1869', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 27).
563 # # $a 17th-century quarter mottled paper, buff paper-covered boards; white paper spine-label inscribed in ink 'La Spada de Senesio' [and a shelf-number].
653 # # $a Fencing - Fencers - Swordplay - Swordsmen - Martial arts - Sports - Italy - Emilia Romagna - Bologna - History - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Treatises - Italy - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century
700 # # $a Herede di Vittorio Benacci $e publisher
700 1 # $a Donini $e publisher
700 1 # $a Mitell. $e engraver
700 0 # $a Ferdinand Charles $e dedicatee