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A year ago, I reviewed Professor Gaugler's Scienza della scherma -- delighting not only in the excellence of his book but also in the fact that an American was calling the shots in the classic Italian tradition of the Art of Fencing, not only in the States, but in Italy as well.
The good news for Anglophone fencers is that they no longer have to hire a translator to gain access to Gaugler's masterful presentation of the Italian school, which up to now was more easily available in German and Italian editions than in the coveted and out-of-print 1987 U.S. edition.
Fully revised and enlarged, this new high-quality paperback edition of The Science of Fencing was published by Lance Lobo's Laureate Press, which brought you Aldo Nadi's 2-volume oeuvre over the last 3 years. Billing the Science as a "companion volume" to Nadi's On Fencing, however, doesn't do justice to the fact that Gaugler has long stepped up to the rank of eminence grise in modern fencing in his own right.
Highly recommended!
Author: Gaugler, William.
Title: The Science of Fencing, Bangor, ME: Laureate Press, 1997; 386 pp.; 134 b/w pictures, softbound.
Price: US$24.95
Hammerterz Rating: HHHH
Available from Laureate Press; tel. 1-800-946-2727
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