Giacomo di Grassi

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Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote His True Arte of Defense, a text on fencing, in 1570. The text was later tranlsated into English and published again in 1594. Di Grassi was one of the three premiere Elizabethan fencing masters, and invented many of the tactics used in modern fencing. In particular, he changed a martial art which was based on attack-counterattack into one based on attack-defense.

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