jan 1, 1484 - LIBER DE ARTE GLADITORIA DIMICANDI F. Vadi

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Connection between Music and Fencing
Analogical Thinking


E se tu notarai le mie doctrine,
tu saprai responder con rasone
e caverai la roxa de le spine

Per farte chiara ancor la tua opinione,
per aguciarte meglio l’inteletto,
a ciò che tu respondi a le persone:

La musica l’adorna e fa sugetto
che’l canto e’l sono s’enframette in l’arte
per farlo di scientia più perfecto

la geometria e musica comparte
le loro virtù scientifiche in la spada
per adornare el gran lume de Marte

Begin the First Chapter.

If someone would like to know and understand
If fencing is an Art or else a science
I say that you should note my opinion
Consider well my sentence
It is a true science not an Art
As I will show you briefly
Geometry divides and separates
With infinite numbers and measures
And fills with science his papers
The sword to her care is subject
It is good to measure blows and steps
To find your trust in science
Fencing is born from geometry
To her it is subject
And both of them are endless

And if you learn my doctrines
You will be able to answer with reason
And take away the rose from the thorns
To make your opinion clearer
And to sharpen your intellect
So you may able to answer to anyone:
As music adorns and combines
The Art of sound and lyrics
And with science makes it perfect
So geometry and music combine
Their scientific virtues in the sword
To adorn the bright star of mars

Now if you like what I say
And the reasons I write
Keep them in your mind and do not lose them
So tell the truth as I say
That in fencing there is no end
As every reverse finds his right
Contrary by contrary without an end

cit.
https://www.thearma.org/Manuals/Vadi.htm#.WpLkK2bGyL4

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