partial list of Period Fencing Masters and some of their works
Italian
| Bolognese | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| Anonimo Bolongese | 1510? | |
| Antonio Manciolino | 1531 | Pre-Rapier cut and thrust |
| Achillie Marozzo | 1536 | Pre-Rapier cut and thrust |
| Angelo Viggiani | 1551 | First known writer to advocate as the thrust as superior to the cut |
| Giovanni Dall'Agocchie | 1572 | |
| Frederico Ghliserio | 1587 | |
| Florentine | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| Francesco di Sandro Altoni | 1537 - 1569? | Mentor / inspiration of Docciolini |
| Marco Docciolini | 1601 | |
| Jacopo Monesi | 1640 | |
| Paduan | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| Vincentio Saviolo | 1595 | |
| Salvator Fabris | 1606 | |
| Francesco Alfieri | 1640 | |
| Other Italian | |||
| Writer | Years | Area | Notes |
| Rocco Bonetti | late 1500's | later owned by Saviolo Later owned by Shakespeare's acting company. |
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| Camillo Agrippa | 1553 | Rome/Milan |
First known writing specifically for the Rapier Potentially the origin of what will become La Verdada Destreza |
| Giacomo Di Grassi | 1570 | Trevino | |
| Ridolfo CapoFerro | 1610 | Siena | |
| Giovanni Antonio Lovino | 1574 - 1589? | Milan | |
| Camillo Palladini | 1600? |
No Known Writings Owned a salle in the BlackFriars in England |
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| Nicoletto Giganti | 1606 and 1608 | Venice | |
Other
| English | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| George Silver | 1599 | Not rapier but comments heavily on Italian rapier and the teachers of the time. |
| George Hale | 1614 | |
| Joseph Swetnam | 1617 | |
| Gideon Ashwell | 1639 | |
| Spanish / Destreza | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| Jeronimo de Carranza | 1569 | |
| Luis Pacheco de Narvaez | 1600 | |
| Gerard Thibaut | 1630 | Not Spanish, but studied under Narvaez and published the most complete work on the topic of Destreza |
| French | ||
| Writer | Years | Notes |
| Henri de Saint-Didier | 1573 | |
| Andre Des-bordes | 1610 | |