Somersault using a springboard. Facsimile of an engraving from "Trois dialogues de l'exercice de sauter et voltiger en l'air" (Excercises in leaping and vaulting), by Arcangelo Tuccaro (1535-1602). Published in Paris, 1599. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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