Play #149
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.97/#2) (Coda Lunga Larga with the Right Foot Forward vs. Coda Lunga Stretta): Finding yourself in coda lunga larga with your right foot forward and your opponent set in coda lunga stretta with his right foot forward; if you should think to lifting a rising falso to his sword hand he will plan to beat your falso to the ground and push a thrust to your chest or a roverso tondo to your face; so thus in this placement of coda lunga larga you will feint the aforesaid rising falso to his sword hand, enticing him to smack it to the ground; and when he does you will make a sfalsata of your sword 38 The text only says to peform a stringere action without describing how; the description of of how to perform the action has been added for clairty. under his, giving him a rising mezzo mandritto to his wrist which will stop a little lower in porta di ferro stretta, but you must not linger there; for you will immediately return with a rising falso to his sword hand and subsequently withdraw the right foot back, throwing a roverso to his sword hand that does not pass coda lunga stretta; or if you prefer instead of throwing the mezzo mandritto to his sword hand, you may, after feinting the falso, give him a roverso tondo to his face, setting yourself then with the sword in coda lunga stretta.