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          Camillo Agrippa

          Italian engineer, architect and mathematician (–)

          Camillo Agrippa

          Camillo Agrippa's portrait, found on his Treatise

          Born

          Milan, Italy

          Died1 January

          Rome, Italy

          NationalityItalian
          Known&#;forFencing theorist, architect, engineer, mathematician
          Notable workTreatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue ()

          Camillo Agrippa ( – 1 January ) was a noted fencer, architect, engineer[1] and mathematician[2] of the Renaissance.

          He is considered to be one of the greatest fencing theorists of all time.

          Agrippa was Milanese, an architect mathematician, and engineer.

        1. Agrippa was Milanese, an architect mathematician, and engineer.
        2. An excellent example of an early fencing manual, Camillo Agrippa's Trattato di scienza d'arme (Treatise on the Science of Arms), located at the William Andrews.
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        4. Used in the education of all fencing instructors trained at the United States Fencing Association Coaches College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
        5. Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing.

          6. Biography

          Though born in Milan, Agrippa lived and worked in Rome, where he was associated with the Confraternity of St. Joseph of the Holy Land and the literary and artistic circle around Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.

          He is most renowned for applying geometric theory to solve problems in armed combat. In his Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue (published in ), he pro