Domenico Angelo

Domenico Angelo (1716 Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 1802, Twickenham, England), was an Italian sword and fencing master who became the celebrated swordsman of mid-eighteenth English society. He earned fame not only with his brilliant skills as a swordsman but also because of his famous fencing school in Soho Square, London. He was also the founder of the Angelo Family of fencers. He has been praised as "the first to emphasize fencing as a means of developing health, poise, and grace. As a result of his insight and influence, fencing changed from an art of war to a sport." His father was born in 1688 in Foggia and later moved to Leghorn, then a thriving commercial port of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Angelo studied the classical French style with the foil at the Royal Association of Masters of Yielding Weapons of the City and Suburbs of Paris under the guidance of Teillagory, who also trained Chevalier d'Éon. Thanks to his skill of Master Angelo, as he was named in England, his school immediately became famous and was attended over the years by the most illustrious personalities of the British capital of the time, such as the painters Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and George Stubbs, the actor David Garrick, as well as Giacomo Casanova, the Chevalier d'Éon, and the future King William IV. and established himself at the prestigious Eton College, where his family continued to teach fencing for three more generations. In the second half of the 19th century, Angelo's school was still run by his descendants. Elizabeth Tremamondo, born 1768. George Xavier Tremamondo, born 1773.

There was perhaps also a son called Michael Angelo.

Death After serving as the fencing teacher at Eton College for several years, Angelo died in Eton on 11 July 1802, at the venerable age of 85. His son Henry replaced him in the direction of the family fencing school in 1780.