Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri
Italian writer
- Born
- 17th century, Venice
- Citizenship
- Republic of Venice
- Sport
- fencing
- Occupation
- writer, fencer
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri was a fencer in the 17th century. He was a representative of the Venetian school of fencing and “Maestro D’Arme” to the Accademia Delia in Padua in 1640. Alfieri was originally from Padua, which at that time was the territory of the Venetian Republic.
Many Venetian and Italian fencing masters in their treatises praised Alfieri as a "master of fencing". Documents from outside of Italy have also been found referring to him. Blasco Florio says in his treatise "The Science of Fencing with the sword of Blasco Florio" (La scienza della scherma esposta da Blasco Florio):
"We know Alfieri as a great scientist, and he will remain so in our memory"
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.