The 1598 George Silver book, "Paradoxes of Defence", was on the regular shelves in my uni's library, and I used it in writing a history paper around 1988. The whole book was a long slander against Italians and their fancy-pants duelling style with light rapiers instead of heavy sword slashing:
One valiant man with a sword in his hand, will do better service, than ten Italians, or Italianated with their rapiers.
Unrelated boast: I was an NCAA Western Regional All-Star in epee in 1990. Unfortunately, this was no help in getting girls. posted by planetkyoto at 2:56 AM on June 14, 2003
What about Florentine style, with two rapiers? Can a rapier parry, say, a claymore? posted by alumshubby at 7:10 AM on June 14, 2003
« Older
Airport Security Confiscates Food TV Star's Omelet...
| 10 Great Gay Cars For 2003....
Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
Subscribe
One valiant man with a sword in his hand, will do better service, than ten Italians, or Italianated with their rapiers.
Unrelated boast: I was an NCAA Western Regional All-Star in epee in 1990. Unfortunately, this was no help in getting girls.
posted by planetkyoto at 2:56 AM on June 14, 2003