The Cutting Edge in Print

This article explores how Scholastic notions of the body, mind and cognition inform didactic principles structuring Opera nova (1536) by Achille Marozzo (1484-1553). A Bolognese fencing master, belonged to a tradition institutionalized martial training which had historically emphasized its connections academic discourses learning. In spite this, Marozzo’s own work has been interpreted as following straightforward copying forms patterns, without much an underlying theoretical argument. argues that does present several conceptual references ideas about workings brain, however, in particular mind’s dependence on mental images provided senses. Delving into these not only helps understand at whole, but also specific role seems have attributed many woodcuts included his book. presenting this argument, then for fruitful insights can be gained from connecting fight books both medieval early modern Scholasticism, history art science.