Maestro Roberto Gotti starts his research and practise of the historical european martial arts in late '90s. He publishes arcticles and books on ancient weapons and martial art, and he has been invited for years now as instructor in the biggest HEMA national and international events.
He is founder and deputy-president of AIMA, for which he wrote the Reinassance longsword manual; he's the President of SPADA, society for promotion of the art of the arms. He is member of the FIS (Italian Fencing Federation) Working Group and member of the National Committee for HEMA examination.
He won the 2016 CSEN longsword championship as an Athlete, and the 2017 and 2018 ones as instructor. Founder and Curator of MAM, Museum of Martial Art, he organized many stable and travelling exhibitions with it, showing martial art and its weapons, allowing hundred of practitioners to handle ancient weapons and read through ancient books and manuscripts.
He invented Gairethnix, Sala d'Arme degli Erranti, first european center dedicated to the daily practice of olimpic fencing and HEMA, where those disciplines are inserted in a museum showcase with more than 2000 items, from ancient printed treatises and manuscripts, swords, polearms and many objects related to the western art of the sword.