Marcello Lodetti
Italian fencer and fencing coach
- Born
- 25 July 1931, Milan
- Died
- 6 December 2012, Milan
- Citizenship
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- Sport
- fencing
- Occupation
- coach, fencer
Marcello Lodetti (1931–2012) was an Italian fencer and fencing coach.
Lodetti graduated in 1959 from the Accademia Nazionale Magistrale (ANS) and started fencing at the age of 7 at the Mangiarotti fencing club in Milano, near the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory. He then became a pupil of Giuseppe Mangiarotti, who had himself been a pupil of Renaud.
Giuseppe Mangiarotti passed on his fencing knowledge Giuseppe Mangiarotti passed on his fencing knowledge, enabling Marcello Lodetti to graduate on 31 May 1959, when his official career as a fencing master started. The young Marcello became an expert in two weapons (foil and épée) and was selected several times for the most important post-war competitions, where he was also part of the Italian national youth team. But his true vocation was teaching.
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