Play #602
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.217/#2) (Coda Lunga Larga vs. Unstated) You being in coda lunga larga with the left foot forward; there you will push a stoccata trivillata towards your enemy's sword hand, and (then) gathering the left foot gallantly beside the right, you will 50 The source text calls this a “stoccata non offensiva trivillata” which is a non-offensive stoccata trivillata, or as elsewhere more effectively called a “stoccata trivillata that goes not to actually hit your enemy,” the purpose is to simply freeze the opponent long enough that we can gather back and bring our sword behind us into coda lunga lunga. allow the sword to go into coda lunga lunga; you will now be able to pass your right foot forward feinting an imbrocatta to his face, and subsequently having done that to him, you will make another feint, this time with a mandritto to his left temple, and as he goes to defend himself from this attack, you will subsequently give him a roverso to his sword arm and to his front leg that will then descend into coda lunga larga; then presently you give him also a rising falso traversato to his sword hand that goes in the manner of guardia sopra braccio; and instantly withdrawing your right foot, you will throw a roverso to his sword hand that descends into coda lunga larga.