Play #661

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.233/#3) (Porta di Ferro Larga vs. Coda Lunga Stretta or Porta di Ferro Stretta) If you should find your enemy again having his sword in presence with his right foot forward in either coda lunga stretta or in porta di ferro stretta, you will set yourself into porta di ferro larga; and feinting a rising falso to his sword hand now, that he make some movement for fear of this falso, you will make a sfalsata of your sword under his towards his left side, beating his sword aside with a mezzo mandritto out towards his right side; then without any delay you will step a little forward with the right foot giving him a mezzo roverso to his face or to his sword arm that does not pass coda lunga stretta; and immediately withdrawing the right foot back, you will turn a mezzo mandritto to his sword hand that does not pass through cinghiara porta di ferro stretta; and so if he should respond to you with some attack to your upper parts, then subsequently you will defend with a falso that does not go past guardia di faccia, and with the greatest speed, you will make a half turn of the hand pushing a thrust to his chest, such, that if he defends against it in any manner, you will immediately withdraw your right foot back, turning a mezzo mandritto to his sword hand that stops in porta di ferro alta for your security.