{"id":5971,"date":"2009-08-27T03:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2009-08-27T03:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T02:18:21","slug":"nicoletto-gigantis-naked-duellists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/27\/nicoletto-gigantis-naked-duellists\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicoletto Giganti&#8217;s naked duellists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diglib.hab.de\/drucke\/xb-7532-1s\/start.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fencers.jpg\" alt=\"fencers.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is something you don&#8217;t generally see in swashbuckling films, a duellist being <em>stabbed through the eye<\/em>. To judge by the plates in <a href=\"http:\/\/diglib.hab.de\/drucke\/xb-7532-1s\/start.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Nicoletto Giganti&#8217;s sword-fighting manual<\/a> it seems to have been a very common form of attack; duels with bare blades were a serious business. For some reason most of the combatants in these pictures also have bare bodies, possibly to better display the positioning of their limbs.<\/p>\n<p>I found this 1644 book by accident last year while searching for something completely unrelated then forgot to bookmark the page. Good job, then, that the indispensable Mr Peacay at <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/fencing-school.html\" target=\"_blank\">BibliOdyssey<\/a> had come across the same pages. He also found plates from an older book dealing with different forms of hand combat.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-men-with-swords-archive\/\">The men with swords archive<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/25\/battle-of-the-naked-men\/\">Battle of the Naked Men<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something you don&#8217;t generally see in swashbuckling films, a duellist being stabbed through the eye. To judge by the plates in Nicoletto Giganti&#8217;s sword-fighting manual it seems to have been a very common form of attack; duels with bare blades were a serious business. For some reason most of the combatants in these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/27\/nicoletto-gigantis-naked-duellists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nicoletto Giganti&#8217;s naked duellists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1042,676,63],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-nicoletto-giganti","tag-swords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1yj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}