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Fior di Bataglia

"The Getty" manuscript by Fiore dei Liberi (author).
US Letter, colour illustrations, softback cover.
Translated by Bruno Nicoletti.

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Fior di Bataglia

About The Book.

A reproduction of Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Bataglia manuscript, also known as "The Getty", it includes a transcription and translation of all the text. Written in the first decade of the 1400s, it is the most detailed of his manuscripts that are know to have survived.

With hundreds of 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 practical guide to a historical martial art.

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.