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Flos Duellatorum

"The Pisani-Dossi" manuscript by Fiore dei Liberi (author).
148 pages, US Letter, colour illustrations, softback cover, lay flat coil binding.
Translated by Bruno Nicoletti.
ISBN : 978-1-0681698-2-3

About The Book.

A straight forward translation of Fiore dei Liberi's 1409 Flos Duellatorum, a treatise on the mediaeval art of arms. It reproduces the original manuscript, along with a transcription and translation of the text into modern English.

With over 250 illustrations and a new translation, it describes how to fight armed or unarmed, in or out of armour, on foot or on horseback, this book is a guide to a historical martial art.

The Flos Duellatorum is the most cryptic of Fiore's Italian surviving manuscripts. Written mostly in terse ryhming couplets, it is less detailed than his longer Fiore di Battaglia manuscript ("The Getty"), but it contains several unique techniques and offers a different perspective to his fighting arts.

This edition is in printed with a softback cover and perfect binding.

About The Author.

Barely appearing in the historical record, Fiore dei Liberi lived in Italy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century, serving as a condottiero to the city of Udine, a martial instructor to Italian and German knights and nobility as well as being an acomplished duellist by his own account. His are some of the earliest works on European martial arts with four illustrated manuscripts known to have survived to this day. In them he describes a true martial system for the late mediaeval man at arms.