Epic Armoury Stiletto

In Italy, the stiletto was employed along with the dagger as a fighting weapon. A 1536 duelling treatise authored by Achille Marozzo contains sections on dagger and stiletto fighting. By the time of the Renaissance the term stiletto had come to describe a range of slender thrusting knives closely resembling the French poignard. Many had conventional dagger-profile blades and sharpened edges but always retaining the slim profile and needle-like point.