"Fiore dei Liberi's 'Flos Duellatorum, or 'Flower of Battle' is an Italian treatise written in 1409 (Note: This particular version of the Liberi manuscript is sourced from Francesco Novati, 1903 of the Pisani-Dossi collection), and is primarily composed of  illustrations with short rhyming captions in Italian. Sections on wrestling, dagger, sword, spear, two handed sword, armored combat, pollaxe, and mounted combat. Considerable discussion of disarming techniques. Two-handed sword (spadone) has the greatest emphasis...

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Released: October 20, 1999
Last modified: June 06, 2007