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Il torneo di Bonauentura Pistofilo nobile ferrarese, dottor di legge e caualiere, nel Teatro di Pallade dell'ordine militare et accademico

Pistofilo, Bonaventura, b. 1576?, Coriolano, Giovanni Battista, -1649, Teatro di Pallade (Bologna, Italy) · 1627 · In Bologna : Per il Ferrone · 34 pictures

A 1627 Bologna treatise on tournament and military exercise by Bonaventura Pistofilo, a Ferrarese nobleman, lawyer and knight, engraved by Giovanni Battista Coriolano for a noble and academic military audience. Its plates show armoured figures in plumed helmets holding pikes, lances and swords in drill-like poses, set in a page layout with a numbered caption and running text, useful for designers seeking early seventeenth-century Italian armour, plumes and pose studies.

Tournaments, Medieval · Infantry drill and tactics

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