death_date birth_date alt residence term education organization death_place other_names title image employer name occupation death_cause caption predecessor parents successor article_title
february 11 , 2007 may 11 , 1950 patri reenactor , memorial day 2006 pugliese in zouave uniform as a civil war medford , massachusetts , usa 1979 & ndash ; 1996 ph.d. 1982 -lrb- history of science -rrb- , harvard , commonwealth higgins armory museum ; society for creative anachronism -lrb- sca vintage -rrb- dancers ; higgins sword guild at the medford , massachusetts , usa patri du chat gris -lrb- sca -rrb- baron of carolingia -lrb- sca -rrb- patri pugliese in zouave uniform.jpg.png dragon systems patri pugliese history ; speech recognition of 19th century dance ; history of fencing cancer in memorial day , may 29 , 2006 zouave uniform as a civil war reenactor , john of ileway julia jones-pugliese -lrb- mother -rrb- aquel of darksted wood patri j. pugliese

patri j. pugliese

patri j. pugliese -lrb- 1950 -- 2007 -rrb- was a historian of science , dance , and fencing , as well as a noted teacher of historical dance .
he received his ph.d. in the history of science from harvard in 1982 , but was best known for his work as a dance historian specializing in the 19th century and for his dissemination of facsimiles of once exceedingly rare historical works on fencing .
fencing was in dr. pugliese 's blood : his mother , julia jones-pugliese , was the first u.s. women 's intercollegiate fencing champion in 1929 and worked as a professional fencing coach until 1994 .
in many ways , he himself can be regarded as the father of the modern study of the history of european swordsmanship ; it was through the texts he provided that many scholars were first introduced to the importance of martial expression to early modern culture .
dr. pugliese was well-known not only for the study and dissemination of historical dance and fencing treatises , but also for his teaching and charitable work .
he was a founding member of the commonwealth vintage dancers in boston and the higgins sword guild at the higgins armory museum in worcester , massachusetts .
he was also active as a civil war reenactor and in the society for creative anachronism , serving as baron of carolingia from 1978 to 1995 .
he worked professionally at dragon systems .
dr. pugliese died on february 11 , 2007 , after a year-long battle with cancer .
he is survived by his wife , barbara , and their two daughters , antonia and julia .
