Steel Marginalia
[46]

Turned Fourth against another passing Fourth

De lo Schermo, overo Scienza d'Arme
Salvator Fabris · Book I · Turned thrust in Fourth.

Plate

Enemy feints outside, passes in Fourth with left hand parry; striker disengages around the hand, turns left foot, places point in advancing body fuori di presenza
Enemy feints outside, passes in Fourth with left hand parry; striker disengages around the hand, turns left foot, places point in advancing body fuori di presenza De lo Schermo, overo Scienza d'Arme · Copenhagen, 1606 · Plate 46

Translation

The following will be a turned Fourth, which wounds against another Fourth passed with the left foot, and it happened because the one who passed feinted that he wished to wound on the outside above the sword, and the other went to parry. The first put the left hand to the enemy sword on the inside in order to parry, and in the same time disengaged in Fourth on the inside, passing beyond with the left foot in order to wound with that Fourth. But the other, who had gone to defend against the outside feint, seeing that the enemy wished to defend himself with the left hand, disengaged the sword that had been above by the outside of that hand and put it into the body of the enemy who was coming on, and by turning with the left foot carried himself out of presence.

He would not have gone to wound so low with the point had it not been to find with his own strong the enemy weak, in order to remain the more defended; thus the hand that believed it would parry remained deceived, as is seen.

Analysis

Initial guards Enemy makes an outside feint over the sword and passes with the left foot.
Wound Turned thrust in Fourth.
  1. The passer feints outside above the sword.
  2. You go to parry.
  3. He places the left hand on your sword to parry.
  4. In the same time he disengages in quarta inside and passes with the left foot to wound.
  5. Seeing that left-hand defence, you disengage the sword that was above.
  6. You take it outside his hand.
  7. You place it in his advancing body.
  8. Turning with the left foot, you carry yourself fuori di presenza.
  9. The low point is explained by the fact that you found his debile with your forte.

Translation note

This is explicitly a play that deceives a left-hand parry.
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