Achille Marozzo was one of the great combat Maestros of Renaissance-era Italy. As well as a detailed and comprehensive approach to rapier fencing, his art included a system of "prese" or close-combat techniques that an unarmed defender could employ against an enemy wielding a dagger.

Marozzo's Pressas links

Scans of Marozzo's complete close-combat system are online here.

Pete Kautz's book on Marozzo's system is available  here.

You can see a number of the prese interpreted and reconstructed here .