Massimiliano Bonelli

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• The 'controtempo' in the late Italian rapier'

  The Italian school is also defined as the "school of the controtempo".

  We will work on techniques but above all on the principles and through the decomposition and analysis of the concepts that make up the action we will arrive at the construction of the controtempo in dynamic situation.

• Biography

  Massimiliano began his journey in Traditional fencing in 2002-2003, when he started to practice rapier in Fisas following the teaching of Andrea Lupo Sinclair. Not very long after, he started studying and practicing all the Weapons of Fisas Method: sidesword ( also with dagger ), Longsword, Radaelli Saber and continued studying rapier ( also with dagger and cape) .

  He has researched and gave demonstrations of the Rapier a number of times. One important mention is his interpretation of the methods shown in the book of L`arte di Adoprar la Spada by Giovanni Pietro Gorio (Milano, 1682). of which he was one of the two writers who did the transcription into a more modern Italian language book reprint.

  Massimiliano has been a member of the FISAS executive committee for a good number of years and was the latest FISAS President till 2021.

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