Vincentio Saviolo · Lineage tree

“He arrived in London in 1590 and quickly gained a great deal of prestige; he seems to have also taken on the former school of Italian master Rocco Bonetti.”

“Like German fencing guilds, English masters taught the traditional weapons of sword and buckler, sword and dagger, two-handed sword, quarterstaff, and bill, only adding the Italian rapier and rapier and dagger after the arrival of the Italian masters Rocco Bonetti about 1571 and Vincentio Saviolo about 1590.”