Getty 20r
One plate, closing the section: the scholar of the third wager doing what his Master promised at [Dagger-Sword 9]. The folio is shared — the sword in one hand begins on the same page, at 20r-c.
This play belongs to the Master who makes the wager just before [9]. For as he has said, so I do; for you see well that with your dagger you can give me no trouble at all.
- This is the play of the Master who made the third wager ([Dagger-Sword 9]) — the scholar discharging the bet.
- He does exactly what that Master said: the sword has gone up under the dagger and the scabbard's point is in the man's face.
- The Getty stops there, and its claim is about the terms rather than the wound: "with your dagger you can give me no trouble at all." The bet is won when the dagger is made irrelevant.
- The verse finishes the man instead: the scabbard strikes the eye, and the sword strikes after it.
Master states the terms, scholar pays them out — Fiore's standard unit, transposed to a bet. The Getty ends the section on a claim of safety; the Pisani Dossi ends it on an eye.
The two versions complete the wager differently: the Pisani Dossi has the scabbard's point strike the eye, matching the promise of [9], while the Getty simply declares the dagger neutralized. The Getty numbering has no play [9] in the Pisani Dossi, and no play [5] in the Getty — each manuscript skips one play of the ten.
Glossological analysis
- partito ([10], by reference to [9]) — the wager once more, and this plate exists only to discharge it. Note the construction: the play "belongs to the Master who makes the wager just before" — the wager is a possession of the Master, and the scholar's job is to make it good.
- impazo ([10]) — trouble, hindrance: "with your dagger you can give me no trouble at all." The section's last words in the Getty are the same word its first answer used ([Dagger-Sword 7]) — the whole game is defined as the removal of impazo, not the delivery of a wound.
- guaghina (PD, [10]) — the scabbard, here with an intrusive -h- where the Getty prose has guagina. Orthography, not a variant: the same word, and the same object doing the same work.
- l'ochio dela testa (PD, [10]) — "the eye in your head": the target the Getty declines to name. The Getty says the scabbard's point goes "into your face" ([9]); the couplet says which part of the face.
- non faro resta (PD, [10]) — "I will make no halt", I will not hold back; resta is a stop or pause. The couplet's two lines divide the work between the two objects: the scabbard takes the eye, and then the sword — with no pause between them — takes the man.
Manuscript comparison
- The two families pay the wager differently. The Pisani Dossi has the scabbard's point strike the eye and the sword follow — precisely fulfilling the promise of [Dagger-Sword 9], where the scabbard's point goes "into your face". The Getty says only that the dagger can do no harm. Here the verse is the more specific witness, which reverses the section's usual relation.
- And the verse fulfils a promise its own manuscript never makes. The Pisani Dossi has no [9] — the wager whose terms [10] discharges exists only in the Getty. Read alone, the Pisani Dossi's [10] is a scabbard striking an eye for no stated reason; read alone, the Getty's [9]–[10] is a promise kept in the vaguest possible terms. Neither witness contains the whole play.
- Coverage. Getty and Pisani Dossi only. The Morgan gave out at [7] and the Paris at [8]; the section's last plate has just the two witnesses, and they are one from each family.
- A shared folio. Getty 20r carries two sections: [10] sits at 20r-a, and the sword in one hand opens on the same page at 20r-c and 20r-d ([Sword1H 1]–[Sword1H 2]). Our concordance assigns no numbered play to 20r-b. The book's section divisions are editorial conveniences; the manuscript simply keeps going.
- Illustrations. Both the Pisani Dossi's 36a-a and the Getty's own 20r-a.