Gregory D Mele

Gregory Mele has been involved in the reconstruction of medieval European martial arts since the early 1990s, focusing on the Italian martial traditions from the 14th to mid-16th centuries. He has a number of publications as an author, co-author, and contributor including Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi: the 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Filippo Vadi (co-authored with Luca Porzio), contributions to SPADA: An Anthology of Swordsmanship and the 2010 edition of the Martial Arts of the World: An...See more

Gregory Mele has been involved in the reconstruction of medieval European martial arts since the early 1990s, focusing on the Italian martial traditions from the 14th to mid-16th centuries. He has a number of publications as an author, co-author, and contributor including Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi: the 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Filippo Vadi (co-authored with Luca Porzio), contributions to SPADA: An Anthology of Swordsmanship and the 2010 edition of the Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation. He is a regular contributor to Western Martial Arts Illustrated, on whose editorial board he serves. Gregory is best known within the Western martial arts community for co-founding the Chicago Swordplay Guild in 1999 to create a formal venue to study historical European swordsmanship and its adjunct arts. In October of that year, he also organized and hosted the first Western Martial Arts Workshop to promote these arts amongst practitioners throughout North America. See less