Play #579

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.209/#2) (Porta di Ferro Larga as Patiente) Finding yourself remaining in porta di ferro larga with your right foot forward against your enemy; there you will stay mindful that if he should strike at you with some attack to your head, you will be able to defend yourself with a falso, immediately stepping a little forward with your right foot, striking at his face with a mandritto that ends back in porta di ferro larga, gathering subsequently your right foot near the left; and there you will be able to subsequently pass with your left foot traversing his right side, giving him in that tempo a tramazzone to the head or the sword hand that descends into cinghiara porta di ferro larga; there you will stay mindful that if the enemy should attack your head, you will pass forward with your right foot defending yourself in guardia di testa, then immediately you will throw a mandritto to his face, to his sword hand, or to his front leg that will then descend into porta di ferro larga; and if there your enemy should think to attack your head in any manner, you will be able to defend against it with a falso, immediately stepping a little forward with your right foot, and striking with a mandritto to the face or to the sword arm which then descends into porta di ferro larga gathering your right foot near the left.