The Combat Of Mutio Lustinopolitan, With The Knightly Responses... 1561.

MUZIO (Girolamo)The Combat of Mutio Iustinopolitain, with the responses of the knights, newly translated from Italian into French by Antoine Chapuis Dauphinois.Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1561. First edition of the French version by the Grenoble lawyer Antoine Chapuis or Chappuys.The work brings together in a single volume two of the first texts of the Paduan humanist Girolamo Muzio (1476-1576): Il Duello; and Le Risposte cavalleresche, both published in 1550, but which had been merged into a single volume from the Venice edition, 1554.Both are treatises on the duel, its codes and customs, dealing with its origin, its causes, its technique, the typology of offenses and reparations, etc.19th century binding.