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If you're interested in Spanish two-handed sword (montante), there are a number of resources online, such as the transcription and translation of Figueiredo's Memorial of the Practice of the Montante here: http://www.oakeshott.org/Figueiredo_Montante_Translation_Myers_and_Hick_v2.pdf

There is the ...

I imagine much of their verbosity comes from talking at length about fencing theory and philosophy. Am I right? I know many of the later Bolognese masters do that. The earlier masters in the Bolognese tradition (and all the German masters) focus much more closely on the actual techniques and ...

Wow, a dozen manuals is quite a bit!

That's just those three. There are a lot of verdadera destreza manuals, and they tend to be quite verbose.

So with those four you gave links to (and Puck and Mary's book), an English reader should be able to practice la Verdadera Destreza? That's good to ...

Are any of those three manuals in English yet?

Between those three authors, there are about a dozen manuals (I think eight for Pacheco, two for Ettenhard, and two for Rada). To the best of my knowledge, the only verdadera destreza manuals (mostly just partly rather than all) that have been ...

I might be wrong, but I'm thinking of renvers, maindroit and estoc as imports from Italian. I realize that this is disputable. They could also result from similar derivations in both languages. At the very least it's explicit in the manual that he had dealings with Italians, so he must have been ...

Most, like Sainct Didier, show an Italian influence in the terms, but may very well include old traits described with these new terms.

I disagree about Sainct Didier, but I'm curious why you say that his terms have an Italian influence.

Tim

So what manuals would you suggest for someone who is interested in the Iberian tradition? I'm interested both in la Verdadera Destreza and the previous Esgrima Comun/Antigua.

I realize that most probably aren't translated yet, but I would like to get a good idea of what to look for as translations ...

That's fantastic news!!!

Thank you for your diligent work on your translation. I'm really looking forward to it! I've been increasingly curious about the Iberian tradition recently.

It seems like the Iberians have more surviving manuals than anyone else outside of the Germans and Italians, but ...

Ah, that makes sense. The material I found was probably a translation-in-progress. It's by Tim Rivera. http://spanishsword.org/files/godinho.excerpt.pdf

I'm looking forward to the full translation!

Those are just a few select chapters. Godinho's work is almost 150 folios, no illustrations. The ...