The warriors of medieval Italy practised a complex and complete
martial art, which included the wielding of sword, axe and spear
with wrestling, knife-fighting and mounted combat. In the waning
years of the 14th century, Fiore dei Liberi was a famed master of
this art, whose students included some of the most renowned and
dangerous fighting men of his day. Credited by fencing historians
as the father of Italian swordmanship, toward the end of his life,
Master Fiore preserved his teachings in a series of illustrated
manuscripts, four of which have survived to the present day, and
have become the basis of a worldwide effort to reconstruct this
lost martial art. This magnum opus, Il Fior di Batalgia (The Flower
of Battle), composed in early 1409, is one of the oldest, most
extensive, and most clearly elucidated martial arts treatises from
the medieval period. Flowers of Battle is a multi-volume series of
lavishly illustrated hardcover books, combining full colour
facsimiles of the Master's original manuscripts, professional,
annotated translations, and extensive peer-reviewed essays. Volume
III, Florius de Arte Luctandi, presents a translation,
transcription and reproduction of chronologically the last, most
recently discovered, and visually most lush Flower of Battle
manuscript. This posthumous work raises more questions than it
answers: for whom was the manuscript creared and why? Why was it
translated into a complex, humanistic Latin, and from what prior
source? Why are there clear nomenclatures and instruction
differences between this and the other three manuscripts, and do
these changes reflect an evolution in the Master's thinking, or
errors in transmission? Mondschein and Mele tackle these questions
and more in a lavishly illustrated introduction that seeks to set
the manuscript in context, as an objet d'art, as an example of
Renaissance patronage, and as a practical martial arts memorial.
Series Note: Vol. I: Historical Overview and the Getty Manuscript
Vol. II: Flos Duellatorum Vol. III: Florius de Arte Luctandi Vol.
IV: The Pierpont-Morgan Manuscript and General Concordance Vol. V:
Leaves of Battle - Fiore dei Liberi's Martial Heirs and Influence
General
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