Editing Rapier (section)

== Historical schools of rapier fencing ==

=== Italy ===
{{Main|Italian school of swordsmanship|Dardi school}}
* [[Achille Marozzo]], ''Opera Nova Chiamata Duello, O Vero Fiore dell'Armi de Singulari Abattimenti Offensivi, & Diffensivi''{{spaced ndash}}1536
* [[Angelo Viggiani]] dal Montone, ''Trattato dello Schermo''{{spaced ndash}}1575
* [[Anonimo Bolognese]], L'Arte della Spada (M-345/M-346 Manuscripts){{spaced ndash}}(early or mid 16th century)<ref>Rubboli and Cesari (2005) date this work to 1500–1525. Leoni and Reich of the Order of the Seven Hearts</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvatorfabris.com/ |title=Salvatorfabris.com |publisher=Salvatorfabris.com |access-date=2013-01-13}}</ref> date it to "about 1550"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvatorfabris.com/BologneseIntroduction.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928060939/http://www.salvatorfabris.com/BologneseIntroduction.pdf|url-status=dead|title=2006 class handout|archivedate=September 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagoswordplayguild.com/c/theTradition/BologneseSwordsmanship.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330045310/http://www.chicagoswordplayguild.com/c/theTradition/BologneseSwordsmanship.asp|url-status=dead|title=Chicagoswordplayguild.com|archivedate=March 30, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Manciolino]], ''Opera Nova per Imparare a Combattere, & Schermire d'ogni sorte Armi''{{spaced ndash}}1531
* Bondi di Mazo, ''La Spada Maestra''{{spaced ndash}}1696
* [[Camillo Agrippa]], ''Trattato di Scientia d'Arme con un Dialogo di Filosofia''{{spaced ndash}}1553
* [[Francesco Alfieri]], ''La Scherma di Francesco Alfieri''{{spaced ndash}}1640
* Francesco Antonio Marcelli, ''Regole della Scherma''{{spaced ndash}}1686
* [[Giacomo di Grassi]], ''Ragion di Adoprar Sicuramente l'Arme si da Offesa, come da Difesa''{{spaced ndash}}1570
* [[Giovanni dall'Agocchie]], ''Dell'Arte di Scrimia''{{spaced ndash}}1572
* Giuseppe Morsicato Pallavicini, ''La Scherma Illustrata''{{spaced ndash}}1670
* Marco Docciolini, ''Trattato in Materia di Scherma''{{spaced ndash}}1601
* [[Nicoletto Giganti]], ''Scola overo Teatro''{{spaced ndash}}1606
* [[Ridolfo Capo Ferro]], ''Gran Simulacro dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scherma''{{spaced ndash}}1610
* [[Salvator Fabris]], ''De lo Schermo ovvero Scienza d'Armi''{{spaced ndash}}1606

=== Spain ===
{{Main|Destreza}}
* [[Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza]], ''De la Filosofía de las Armas'' (1569)
* [[Luis Pacheco de Narváez]], ''[[Libro de las grandezas de la espada|Libro de las Grandezas de la Espada]]'' (1599)

=== The Netherlands ===
* [[Girard Thibault]], ''Academie de l'Espée'' (1630)

=== France ===
* André Desbordes, ''Discours de la théorie et de la pratique de l'excellence des armes'' (1610)
* Charles Besnard, ''Le maistre d'arme liberal'' (1653)
* [[François Dancie]], ''Discours des armes et methode pour bien tirer de l'espée et poignard'' ({{Circa|1610}}) and ''L'Espee de combat'' (1623)

=== England ===
* [[Joseph Swetnam]], ''The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence'' (1617)
* ''The Pallas Armata'' (1639)
* [[Vincentio Saviolo]], ''His Practise'' 1595

=== Germany ===
{{Main|German school of fencing}}
* Jakob Sutor, ''Künstliches Fechtbuch'' (1612)
* [[Joachim Meyer]], ''Thorough Descriptions of the free Knightly and Noble Art of Fencing'' (1570)
* [[Johannes Georgius Bruchius]] (1671)
* [[Paulus Hector Mair]], ''Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica'' (1542)

=== The classical fencing tradition ===
[[Classical fencing]] schools claim to have inherited aspects of rapier forms in their systems. In 1885, fencing scholar Egerton Castle wrote "there is little doubt that the French system of fencing can be traced, at its origin, to the ancient Italian swordsmanship; the modern Italian school being of course derived in an uninterrupted manner from the same source." Castle went on to note that "the Italians have preserved the rapier form, with cup, pas d'ane, and quillons, but with a slender quadrangular blade."<ref>{{cite book |first=Egerton |last=Castle |title=Schools and Masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. |location=[[London]] |publisher=[[George Bell & Sons]] |year=1885 |pages=iv, 257 |url=https://archive.org/details/schoolsandmaste00castgoog|quote=Schools and Masters of Fence. }}</ref>