Trattato di scientia d'arme : con vn dialogo di filosofia
A 1553 Italian treatise on fencing, printed in Rome by Antonio Blado and written by Camillo Agrippa for students of the sword. Its pictures show a nude male fencer in stepped-out guard positions, drawn in fine pen-and-ink with lettered markers, and a designer might take from them a clear, systematic sequence of poses for figure studies of tension, balance and motion.
