A table of guards used with Bolognese cut-and-thrust swordplay. Courtesy of Tom Leoni.

Thomas Churchyard's 1594 English Translation of Giacomo Di Grassi's sidesword treatise.

(1594, Thomas Churchyard) Giacomo DiGrassi's sidesword/rapier manual, translated into English. This translation is the earliest known fencing manual published in English. Courtesy of Patri Pugliese and Stuart Huntley.

(1570) In the original Italian, courtesy of William Wilson.