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Luigi Barbasetti (* 21. February 1859 in Cividale del Friuli; † 31. March 1948 in Verona) was an italian fencing master and reformer. His teacher was fencing master Giuseppe Radaelli, who trained him to a „military master of arms.“ Barbasettis second teacher was fencing master Masaniello Parise from the Masters School in Rome. Afterwars he taught at the Masters School in Rome. He was a fencing master of Triest before he was called to Vienna. Under the patronage of Archduke Franz Salvator, he played a leading role in the reform oft he sport of fencing in Vienna in 1895 by making the modern Italien fencing method accessible to the German-speaking area. He founded 1895 the fencing school “Union Fechtklub Wien” that still exists today. In 1915 Barbasetti had to leave Germany because Italy took part in the war against Germany. He returned to Italy until he moved to Paris 1921, where he taught at the Automobile Club and the Golfers Club.He returned again to Italy in 1943 and died in Verona on March 31, 1948.

Publications

• The Art of the Foil. 1932. reprint 1998. ISBN 0-76070943-2 • The Art of the Sabre and the Epee. 1936. reprint 2019. ISBN 9783964010056