Antonio Manciolino

Also known as

Antonio Francesco Manciolino

Description

Sixteenth-century Bolognese fencing master, probably a student of Guido Antonio de Luca, whose Opera Nova (about 1523, revised edition 1531) is one of the two main sources of the Bolognese school.

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  Guido Antonio de Luca

  sports_martial_artsBolognese school Probable

  Probable

  One source states it; others hedge.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  One source states it; others hedge.

  “The increased knowledge is owed to de Luca’s students Antonio Manciolino and Achille Marozzo, both of whom published works entitled Opera Nova (New Works) during the 1530s.”

  — Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

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  “he seems to have been Bolognese by birth and he may have been a student of Guido Antonio di Luca”

  — Antonio Manciolino - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauer link history info

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  “No manuscript ascribed to Dardi himself survives, although his tradition became the foundation for the work of Antonio Francesco Manciolino and Achille Marozzo, both possibly students of famed Bolognese master Guido Antonio de Luca.”

  — Bolognese Swordsmanship - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

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