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Eddie, "taglio" is a cut. It's my mother-language...

Anyway, back to my real job.

Tom

Jeanry, I think you are hitting the nail on the head in many regards. My only disagreement is about cutting targets. As I said in point 1 of my previous post, the Italian cut and thrust masters of the 16th Century virtually NEVER aimed a cut at anything else than the head or head/neck area and the l...

Casper, I disagree about most of what you are saying, although you are surely entitled to your opinion. 1) Fabris, Alfieri, Capoferro and those whom we identify as "rapier" masters are not the only ones who use the head and limbs almost exclusively for targets of cuts. Manciolino, Marozzo ...

Tim, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I strongly believe that a deeper delving into hopology will yield a lot of answers. Unfortunately, up to the recent past precious little research has been done in this regard - as you know, most curators only look at hilts, which is regrettable. If nothing el...

Allen,

Before you call a writer "ignorant" you should make sure you know him, have read the article and can cite good reasons why you think he is. Otherwise, the charge falls back on you.

John, I know how you feel about the rapier and cutting. We have had that discussion before, and I saw that it was a hot-button for you, for some reason. But we can have a divergence of opinions without your resorting to claiming that "too many movies" lead me to say what I said on my websi...