Luigi Barbasetti

March 1948 in Verona) was an Italian fencing master and reformer.

[2] Under the patronage of Archduke Franz Salvator, he played a leading role in the reform of the sport of fencing in Vienna in 1895 by making the modern Italian fencing method accessible to the German-speaking area.

In 1895 he founded the fencing school "Union Fechtklub Wien" that still exists today.

He developed a Hungarian style of saber technique, which dominated saber fencing for the first half of the twentieth century[3] and trained the Hungarian master József Keresztessy also called “father of Hungarian sabre fencing.” In 1915 Barbasetti had to leave Germany because Italy took part in the war against Germany.

He returned again to Italy in 1943 and died in Verona on March 31, 1948.