Dear All,

It is with sadness that we report the death of Mr. Patri Pugliese.
Mr. Pugliese passed from this life on the afternoon of Sunday
February 11, 2007. For those of you who did not know Mr. Pugliese was
the first person to make photo-copies of historical fencing texts
available to the public. He did this as a service to those who are
interested in classical and historical fencing. He was never
motivated by profit or personal recognition but by his love for
fencing and history which was instilled in him by his late mother and
teacher Ms. Julia Jones who was the fencing coach at Hunter College
for many years and student of the great fencing master Maestro Julio
Martinez Castello.

The importance and significance of Mr. Pugliese's contribution to the
resurgence in the interest in classical and historical fencing cannot
be emphasized enough. It was due to his generosity and efforts that
many of those who are involved today in the study of the historical
fencing treatises got their start. He was also one of the first
pioneers in the serious and systematic study and reconstructions of
the methods that the great masters of the past left in their written
works.

Mr. Pugliese will be sorely missed by all those who knew him as well
as those who did not know him personally. He was one of the first who
breeched the wall of fencing mythology and opened the gate for access
to the truth.

Patri, we offer a Grand Salute to you and like the legendary
swordsman and poet Cyrano De Bergerac, we pray; "...that when you
enter before God, may your salute sweep all the stars from the blue
threshold..."

Sincerely,
Ramon & Jeannette Martinez



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