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  2. Fiore dei Liberi - Wikipedia

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    This manuscript is typically referred to as either the 'Novati' or 'Pisani Dossi version'. The Pisani Dossi Ms. was published in facsimile by Francesco Novati in 1902, including the only reproductions of a copy of the Flower of Battle that are clearly in the public domain. However, it is unclear how accurate this facsimile is as evidence ...

  3. Flos Duellatorum - Wikipedia

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    The sette spade Diagram from the Pisani facsimile (fol. 17A). The four animals symbolize prudence (), celerity (), audacity (), and fortitude ().C.f. also Five Animals.. The Flos Duellatorum is the name given to one of the manuscript versions of Fiore dei Liberi's illuminated manuscript fight book, written in 1410 (dated to 1409 in the old reckoning).

  4. Italian school of swordsmanship - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest known Italian treatises on swordsmanship and other martial arts is the Flos Duellatorum (Fior Di Battaglia/The Flower of Battle) written by Fiore dei Liberi around 1409. Fiore's treatise describes an advanced martial arts system of grappling, dagger, short sword, longsword, pollaxe, and spear.

  5. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    Image contrast and brightness were enhanced to better visualize the details visible to the naked eye on their external surface. [1] The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount ...

  6. In Flanders Fields - Wikipedia

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    In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.

  7. Flores Historiarum - Wikipedia

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    Flores Historiarum. King Arthur – miniature from the Chetham MS 6712 Flores Historiarum, by or after Matthew Paris. The Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History) is the name of two different (though related) Latin chronicles by medieval English historians that were created in the 13th century, associated originally with the Abbey of St Albans.

  8. Victoria and Albert Akbarnama - Wikipedia

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    Explosion during the siege of Chittorgarh on December 17, 1567. The Victoria and Albert Akbarnāma or First Akbar-nāma is the first illustrated manuscript of the Akbarnama, the history of the Mughal ruler Akbar and his ancestors from the pen of Abul Fazl. It is also the oldest copy of the Akbar-nāma, which was written at almost the same time ...

  9. Jean Elliot - Wikipedia

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    Parent (s) Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Bt of Minto. Helen Stewart. Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet. She wrote one of the most famous versions of The Flowers of the Forest, a song lamenting the Scottish army's defeat in the Battle of Flodden. Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work.