Gio. Pietro Gorio's Art of using the SwordGorios Arte di Adoprar la Spada is a concise work, providing a practically minded description of a thrust based style of fencing, that is easy to understand and put into practice. Published in Milan, in 1682, it is also one of only a few treatises to be published in Northern Italy in the last decades of the 17th century. While a number of treatises were published in this period describing the style of fencing taught in Naples and on Sicily, Gorios