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  Italo Santelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Italo Santelli (August 15, 1866-February 8, 1945) was an Italian fencer who is considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing".
Italo Santelli was born in Italy in 1866.
Santelli was called in as a witness to Boni's outbreak, and the Italian team was forced to resign from the competition.
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 Italo Santelli
Italo Santelli who when asked why he did not write a book about fencing, said, "Fencing is something you do, and not write!" Ironically, we would not know this today, if Santelli's pupil, Laszlo Szabo, didn't have the foresight to write it in his invaluable book Fencing and the Master.
Italo Santelli graduated from the famed Italian Scuola Magistrale.
Santelli improved on the Italian method and revolutionized saber fencing along with Luigi Barbasetti, with Santelli becoming recognized as the "Father of Modern Saber Fencing".
www.geocities.com /giorgio_santelli_csaba_elthes/Italo_Santelli.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Fencing.Net Discussion Board - the 1924 scoring controversy, settled with a real duel
Italo was said to be livid that Giorgio stepped in to take his place in the duel (apparently Giorgio had the right to do that in the code duello due to Italo's age).
Santelli's father, Italo, ran one of Europe's most famous salles d'armes, a training center for aristocrats and Olympic athletes in an age and in a country that still admired the swordsman.
Santelli has been the dominant figure in American fencing for many yeaears, He coached the Olympic teams from 1928 through 1952, revolutionized technique, and exerted an incomparable spiritual force with his singleminded and selfless dedication to his sport.
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 Giorgio Santelli in the 1920's
Italo was in the act of leaping forward to accept with pleasure when Giorgio stepped in front of him.
It should be remarked that while Santelli felt not a particle of animosity toward Cotronei, he was disgruntled over the choice of Abbazia, which was a good long way from Budapest, involving a tiresome train trip, with expenses, and he was in a mild pet when he arrived for the blood-letting.
Santelli, regarding it all as a thundering nuisance, was toying with the idea of cutting off Cotronei’s head, but he landed a tremendously telling whack on the man’s left cheekbone instead and cut and authentically picturesque gash near his eye.
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 Fencing — news reports, Sydney results, ancient origins, Olympic history, Atlanta results, the competition, rules in ...
None was given and the judge called on Santelli as a witness to confirm Boni's abusive outburst.
The insult was too much for Santelli to bear; the 60-year-old challenged Adolfo Contronei, the Italy captain, to a duel.
Government licence was obtained but Santelli's son Giorgio invoked the duelling code to take his father's place and sabres were drawn.
www.times-olympics.co.uk /communities/fencing/fencingancient.html   (647 words)

  
 Santelli Fencing Authority Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1896 - Italo Santelli, at the Millennium Of Hungary National Exhibition held in Budapest In 1896 Santelli, now a full-fledged fencing master, left Italy and moved to and revolutionized saber fencing along with Luigi Barbasetti, with Santelli becoming recognized as.
Giorgio Santelli and Csaba Elthes, a growing repository of information about these 2 great fencing masters, U.S. Olympic coaches, Olympic medalists and the legacy they left to the United States,through their years of work.
Epee, Foil, Sabre Fencing on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport Louisiana Born in midtown Manhattan in 1950, Shaw lived next door to fencing Olympian Edward Vebell Shaw was invited to join the Santelli fencing team in 1964 at the age of.
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 Fencing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giorgio Santelli, Italo's son, founder of the Santelli salle in New York City, coach to 5 U.S. Olympic teams, legendary fencing teacher, Olympic gold medallist.
László Szabó, the Hungarian master who defined a system for developing coaches and wrote the defining Fencing and the Master, the only direct student of the legendary Italo Santelli to write of what he learned.
Francis Zold (1904-2003), Hungarian fencing master and a legendary promoter and teacher of fencing in the post-war US; a student of Italo Santelli, he served as captain of the Hungarian fencing team at the London Olympics in 1948.
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 Santelli Fencing - Big Fencing Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shaw was invited to join the Santelli fencing team in 1964 at the age of 14.
Orsi taught at the Santelli Fencing Academy and the Orsi Fencing Village in Rutherford, NJ from 1967 to 1985.
Orsi taught at the Santelli Fencing Academy and the Orsi Fencing Village...
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 The Ultimate Olympian: Fencing Preview
Almost as bad is the number of times some light-hearted, albeit competitive, swordplay sparked such bad feeling that the protagonists resorted to actual duels in order to settle their differences.
They acquired permission from the government to have at it, but before they could meet, Santelli’s 27-year-old son, Giorgio, invoked the code duello and demanded that he fight in his father’s place.
After two minutes, the younger Santelli caught the Italian captain with a blow to the head that left a deep slash.
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 Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His name is Italo Santelli, and apart from his coaching duties he would regularly be approached by men facing duels (illegal then as now) who had never fenced.
The next day Santelli went to his salle as usual and was surprised to find his new pupil there, his face wreathed in smiles.
Santelli accepted the profuse thanks offered but was further surprised when the man continued: “I have one more favour to ask; will you now teach my son?” The boy was a teenager, so there was no duel in sight.
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 Great Fencing Masters of History
He worked with fencers who had already completed their basic training, and although he would correct his student’s technical errors he was more interested in tactics and strategy, teaching his students how to observe their students on the piste and how to exploit their weaknesses.
In the late 1920's Borsodi and Santelli combined to develop and teach the technique of the Afleche.
It is ironic that Borsody, a master swordsman should have been killed in a pistol duel.
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 Giorgio Santelli and Csaba Elthes-2 Great Fencing Masters
This growing repository of facts, data and anecdotes of legendary fencing maestros Giorgio Santelli and Csaba Elthes is meant to document the immense legacy left by these two men to American Fencing through their teachings and training of fencers and coaches.
Many of our coaches today were taught by these two men and their everyday work and coaching is a living legacy to american fencers as these coaches pass on their accumulated knowledge and experience to new generations of fencers.
Many photos courtesy of Andrea Santelli who at the request of Andy Shaw, sent copies to the USFA for the official archives.
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 Fencing Equipment Foils Santelli - Big Fencing Guide
Santelli Inc. or rate George Santelli Inc. Duellist Fencing Equipment.
Santelli : Manufactures and distributes the fencing equipment with blades from Leon Paul...
Italo Santelli, the fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencingwith...
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 Lessons from Santelli by Frank Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
I have decided, while my recollection of these lessons is still clear, to put them on paper--they may be of some value to our local sabreurs.
round the turn of this century, Luigi Barbasetti and Italo Santelli (father of Giorgio) were instrumental in developing a system for sabre teaching that incorporated the best features of the classical Italian School and the emerging Hungarian School.
So successful were they that Hungary, a small country with a population of 3,000,000, produced Olympic and World Champions (individual and team), for the next sixty years.
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 Italo Calvino - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Italo Calvino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Italo Calvino/If on a Winters Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino/The Path to the Nest of Spiders
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Deaths: Duckett, Csiszar, Jackson
Known as "Maestro" and regarded as one of the all-time great fencing coaches, he coached men's and women's fencing at Penn from 1948 to 1974.
In 1928, Maestro Csiszar studied with one of the world's greatest fencing coaches, Italo Santelli, and became a teacher at his school in Budapest.
Santelli died in 1945, Maestro Csiszar took over the development of Hungary's championship teams.
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 Santelli Sabre Fencing Equipment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Italo Santelli, the fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencing with the...
Swords Decorative Collectors MADE IN SPAIN $16.00 Santelli Sabre Lame $0.01 Lame Cuff for Sabre competition $27 NEW EUROSPORT $4.99 Fencing equipment, body and head cover $0.99 Great...
We also had a close relationship with Salle Santelli New...
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 Men of Iron: part two
In the aftermath of the 1924 Olympics, he fought another duel, this time against Italo Santelli's 27-year old son Giorgio--who had invoked the Code Duello to fight for his 60-years-old father.
Santelli must have landed a tierce of quarte in the side of Contronei's forehead, upon which the duel was terminated after only two minutes of combat time.
Santelli must have perceived the 45-year old amateur Contronei (who was the fencing critic for an Italian newspaper, "with considerable knowledge of the sport"[62]) as a real threat to his father, a veteran fencing master and coach of the Hungarian Olympic team.
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 Sports: Fencing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Notable modern fencers and fencing masters * Aldo Nadi, gold and silver medalist in the 1920 Summer Olympic Games, well-known fencing master, and author of the classic text, On Fencing.
* Italo Santelli, the fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencing with the "Hungarian" style in the 1920s.
* Georgio Santelli, Italo's son, founder of the Santelli salle in New York City.
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In 1896, Italo Santelli, a pupil of Carlo Pessina who was also a Radaellian, was invited to teach in Budapest.
With Barbasetti in Austria and Santelli in Hungary, the Italian influence became paramount in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Hungarian school improved on the Italian school by using finger play to control hits and blade movements, thus allowing a flexible wrist and a minimum of arm movements.
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 Great Fencing Champions
Mangiarotti ws trained by his father Giuseppi who had studied under Italo Santelli.
Epee Master who founded a fencing school which dominated international competition for nearly four decades.
Santelli improved on the Italian method and revolutioned saber fencing along with Luigi Barbasetti, with Santelli becoming recognized as the "Father of Modern Saber Fencing".
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 Hungary.hu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He was born in Miskolc, his father was a fencing trainer.
He also took up fencing, but he learnt the mastery of fencing from coach Italo Santelli, working in Hungary at the time, rather than from his father.
He collected seven Olympic gold medals, in addition to which he also won a silver and two bronze medals.
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 fencing : QuicklyFind Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Giorgio Santelli, Italo's son, founder of the Santelli salle in New York City, coach to 5 U.S. Olympic teams, legendary fencing teacher, Olympic gold medalist.
Laszlo Szabo, the Hungarian master who defined a system for developing coaches and wrote the defining Fencing and the Master, the only direct student of the legendary Italo Santelli to write of what he learned.
Imre Vass, who produced the definitive guide to épée fencing
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 Inkwerk: April 2004 Archives
Santelli pines for the days when satisfaction, not damages, settled a score; and the fencing master, not the attorney, was the aggrieved party's first recourse -- and who's to say he's altogether wrong?
Santelli admits to having fought only one duel himself, an affair of
Italo Santelli's testimony led to the disqualification of the
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 Espada y daga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
- Italo Santelli, the fencing master who revolutionized sabre fencing with the "Hungarian" style in the 1920s.
- Giorgio Santelli, Italo's son, founder of the Santelli salle in New York City, coach to 5 U.S. Olympic teams, legendary fencing teacher, Olympic gold medallist.
- Francis Zold (1904-2003), Hungarian fencing master and a legendary promoter and teacher of fencing in the post-war US; a student of Italo Santelli, he served as captain of the Hungarian fencing team at the London Olympics in 1948.
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