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English Translation by C. Dobbs (2022)
English Translation by C. Dobbs (2022)
CONTENTS:
Critical Notes
on the
Redaelli System of Fencing
by the
Maestro Giovanni Pagliuca
Dedicated
To the Illustrious Barone OTTAVO ANZANI
EMINENT FENCER, DIRECTOR OF THE CIRCLE OF NAPLES
AND HONORARY MEMBER
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FENCING
TURIN
[Dedication and Response]
[Dedication and Response]
Most Illustrious Sir Barone
The prowess, the ability not only to know how but when to set the art of fencing into practice, and the chivalric nobility of soul with which you are filled has obliged me to write and dedicate to you this my little work of critique on the Radaelli system.
Please accept it then with good will, and with profound esteem believe me to be your
Most Devoted
GIOVANNI PAGLIUCA.
Excellent Professor
I am most grateful that you have dedicated to me your fencing critique on the Radaelli system. I am pleased to be able to attest in such occasion to the account of your fencing quality, which I ascribe to your personal kindness the flattering praises with which you honored me.
Accepted therefore with recognition your genteel gift and with a sense of esteem and consideration
Naples, 18 December 1880
Yours
Barone OTTAVIO ANZANI
PREFACE
PREFACE
This which I write is only my manner of seeing things. I do not mean that the critique to which I wish to bind myself is truly correct: that is, I do not mean to try to express the sentiment of all. But, I repeat, it is only my way of confronting a system which I do not know but which I must learn with another that I have studied and which I cultivated for eight years -- from September of 1868.
I’ll note my daily observations, that gradually became a lesson. I’ll abstain from speaking of the good, namely of that which I believe to be good because it compares with my method, which is that of the Professor ENRICHETTI (1) and I’ll follow my ideas to critique those parts which merit it.
Milan 31 July 1876
He whose fundamental bases were all from the never-enough-praised Neapolitan system.
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