Taza bowl hilt with birds patterns the blade is 92 cm long for a total of 112 cm and 2.3 cm width at the ricasso Taza Rapier, which means bowl in Spanish, XVII th century style, Viollet le Duc period. This is a good example of a rapier, the weapon used by the famous three musketeers, Cyrano de Bergerac and other heroes of the XVII th century. Two of the four cardinal vertues are engraved...Prudencia and Justitia...with 1572...The St. Bartholomews Day massacre (le massacre of the Saint Barthelemy) Hugenots and Catholics during the French Wars of Religion. Taza Rapier, which means bowl in Spanish, XVII th century style, Viollet le Duc period. On one side is engraved Justitia 1572, but this rapier style is from the 1620s, on the other side is engraved Prudencia. The cardinal virtues are a set of four virtues recognized in the writings of Classical Antiquity and, along with the theological virtues...they can be find in the Christian tradition, in the Saint Augustine writings. They consist of: -Prudence -Justice -Temperance or Restraint -Fortitude The cardinal virtues are so called because they are the basic virtues, required for a virtuous and moral life. The word rapier was not used by Italian, Spanish, and French masters during the apogee of this weapon, the terms spada, espada and épée (or espée) being instead the norm (generic word for sword). Because of this, as well as the great variation of late-16th and 17th century swords, some like Tom Leoni simply describe the rapier as a straight-bladed, two-edged, single-handed sword of that period which is self-sufficient in terms of both offense and defense, not requiring a companion weapon.In order to avoid the confusion of lumping all swords together, some categorize such swords by their function and use. Most rapiers vanished from the battlefields by 1670 to be replaced by a stronger sword, good for cavalry and infantry.The cavalry basket-hilted sword called Wallonne in France or Walloon is a weapon originating from the 16th century in Northen Europe countries, rising to popularity in the 17th century and remained in widespread use until 1730.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:56:21 +0000
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