Nicoletto Giganti

Italy

Also known as

Niccoletto Giganti

Description

Italian soldier and fencing master of Venice, master of arms to the Order of Santo Stefano in Pisa, whose rapier treatise Scola, overo teatro (1606) teaches through graded lessons and was the first to set out the lunge fully; it was reprinted and translated many times.

Sources

“In 1606, Nicoletto Giganti, a Venetian fencing master, published a shorter, more concise work called Scola overo Teatro (School or Theater [of Arms]).”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info
“Nicoletto Giganti (Niccoletto, Nicolat) was an Italian soldier and fencing master around the turn of the 17th century.”
— Nicoletto Giganti - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauer link history info

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