Fiore de'i Liberi/Mounted Fencing

Images	Images	PD by Michael Chidester Getty (Open for translation)	Paris (Open for translation) Morgan by Michael Chidester	Morgan Transcription [edit] Open for editing	Getty Transcription [edit] Open for editing	Pisani Dossi Transcription [edit] by Francesco Novati	Paris Transcription [edit] by Charlélie Berthaut
300px	300px	[1] I carry my lance in the Boar's Tusk: To deviate yours, I will make mine enter.	I carry my lance in the Stance of the Wild Boar's Tusk (Posta di Dente di Zenghiar) because I am well armored and have a shorter lance than my companion. And so I make my strategy to beat his lance out of the way (so that it is off to one side and not high), and thus I will strike with my lance to his and enter with an arm on my haft, and my lance will run into his person. And his lance will go out of the way far from me, and in such fashion will I do it as is written and depicted here.		[41r-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 41r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance - Google Art Project (6913141).jpg
				[3r-b] Io porto mia lanza in posta di dente di zenghiar perche io son bene armado, e si o curta lanza piu che lo compagno. ¶ E si fazo rasone de rebatere la sua lanza fora de strada, zoe ala taiversa[!] e non in erto. E si firiro Cum la mia lanza in la sua uno brazo in entro cum uno brazo dela mia asta. ¶ E la mia lanza discorrera in la sua persona. E lla sua lanza andera fora de strada lonze de mi e per tal modo faro como e dipento e scripto aqui.	[41r-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 41r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance - Google Art Project (6913141).jpg	[29a-b] Io porto mia lança a'dent de çenchiar Per svariar la tua la mia io faro intrar	[2r-b] Nunc hastile gero sub aprino dente coruscans. Utque [??] variare queam / penetrabo medullas.
300px	300px	[2] In the Boar's Tusk I carry my lance; To beat and to strike are always my method.			[41r-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 41r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance - Google Art Project (6913141).jpg	[29a-c] A dent de cenchiar io porto la mia lança Rebater e ferir e sempre mia usança
		So that you won't have advantage over me with your lance, This carry of yours I will also make with mine. [In the Getty, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	This is the counter to the play of the lance that came before, that here one runs against the other with sharp iron and he has a shorter lance than the other. When he that has a short lance carries his low in the Boar's Tusk, he that has the long lance should similarly carry it low in the way that is depicted here, so that the short cannot beat the long.	[3r-d] Aquesto si e lo contrario dello zogo de lanza ch'e denanzi. Che qui uno corre contra l'altro a ferri amoladi, e uno a curta lanza piu che l'altro. ¶ Quando aquello che a curta lanza la porta la sua bassa in dente de zenghiar, Aquello che ala lanza longa debia similmente portarla bassa la sua, ¶ perche la curta non possa rebater la longa per lo modo ch'e aqui dipento.		[29a-d] Pero che cum tua lança de mi non habii avantaço Aquello portare dela tua, dela mia el faço
300px	300px	[3] Because of the short lance that I hold, I come in the Stance of the Queen: To beat and to strike, I hold myself certain.	This is another way to carry the lance. This Master has a short lance and carries it in the Stance of the Queen on the Left (Posta de Dona la Sinistra) as you can see, to beat and then to strike his companion.	[3v-b] Aquesto e uno altro portar de lanza. Aquesto magistro a curta lanza, e si la porta in posta de dona la sinistra como voii vedite, per rebater, e ferire lo compagno.	[41v-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 41v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance - Google Art Project.jpg	[29b-b] Per curta lança che io ho in posta de dona vegno Per rebater e ferir certo io me tegno	[2r-d] ¶ En venio retinens muliebrj pectore telum. Nec vereor terram genibus contingere lentis. Et feriam variata tamen tua lancea praedet.
300px	300px	[4] To waste you or your horse, I make this throw: And I will come to you to attack with my sword. [In the Getty, the Master on the left is missing his crown.]	If I throw my lance into the chest of your horse, your beat will fail. And as soon as I've thrown my lance, I will take up the sword for my defense and with your lance you will not do me offense.	[3v-c] S’io lanzo mia lanza in lo petto dello tuo cavallo, lo tuo rebatere fallo. E subito lanzada mia lanza la spada pigliro per mia defesa. E cum tua lanza non mi faraii offesa.		[29b-c] Per guastar ti o tuo cavallo faço questo lançar E po cum mia spada io te vegnero a'trovar
		[In the Pisani-Dossi, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	Again, this Master carries his lance in the Stance of the Queen on the Left to beat the lance that the companion wants to throw. And that beat which he wants to strike with the lance he could also do with a staff or with a sword (except that if he throws his lance into the chest of my horse, my beat will be turned to failure.) [In the Morgan, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	[3v-d] Anchora a questo magistro porta la sua lanza in posta di donna sinistra per rebater la lanza che lo compagno gli vole lanzare. E aquello rebatere che lo vol cum la lanza fare, Aquello cum uno bastone o curta spada far lo poria. Salvo che s'ello buta sua lanza in lo peto delo mio cavallo lo mio rebater tornera fallo.	[41v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 41v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance - Google Art Project.jpg
300px	300px	[5] Fleeing, I cannot make any other defense And so I turn myself to the right and will make you offense. [In the Pisani-Dossi, the Master is missing his crown.]	This Master who flees is not armored and is on a running horse, and he is always throwing thrusts with his lance backward to strike his companion. And if he were to turn to the right side he could easily enter into the Boar's Tusk with his lance or into the Stance of the Queen on the Left, and beat and strike as he could do in the first and third plays of the lance [on foot].	[4r-b] Aquesto magistro che fuge non e armado, e si e bene a cavallo corrente, e sempre va butando le punte cum la sua lanza deriedo da si, per ferire lo compagno. E s'ello si voltasse della parte dritta ben poria intrar in dente de zenghiar cum sua lanza, overo in posta di donna la sinistra, e rebater, e ferire como si po fare, in lo primo & in lo terzo zogo de lanza.	[42r-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 42r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project (6901517).jpg	[30a-b] Fuçando non posso far altra deffesa E se me volto del drito farote offesa	[3r-b] ¶ Rectus in oppositum faciam tibi forte dolores. Qui fugiens proprium nequeo defendere corpus.
300px		[6] I make the counter to your guard, And your horse I will strike without any trouble.	This is the counter to the play that came before. And this Master with the lance carries it low to strike the horse in the head and in the chest, because his companion cannot reach so low with his sword.	[4r-c] Aquesto si e lo contrario dello zogho ch'e denanci. Che questo magistro cum la lanza la porta bassa per ferire lo cavalo in la testa, o in lo petto, che lo compagno non po rebater cum la spada tanto basso.	[42v-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 42v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project (6903442).jpg	[30a-c] Lo contrario dela tua guardia io faço Tuo cavallo feriro sença nessun impaço
		[In the Getty, the Master on the right is missing his crown. In the Pisani-Dossi, both Masters are missing their crowns.]	This carry of the sword against the lance is very good for beating the lance while riding to the right side of your companion. And this guard is good against all other handheld weapons, that is, against the axe, the staff, the sword, and so forth.	[4r-d] Aquesto portar de spada contra lanza e molto fino per rebatere la lanza, cavalcando dela parte dritta delo compagno. E aquesta guardia si e bona contra tute altre arme manuale, zoe contra azza, bastone spada, &c.	[42r-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 42r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project (6901517).jpg
300px	300px	[7] With my sword, I will beat your lance, And with either the point or the edge I will strike you.	This carry of the sword is very fine, and it is called by a name that was said before: I carry my sword in the left Queen's Stance. And if this one comes to me with the lance in rest (to strike me and not my horse), I will beat his lance and I will strike him with my sword without fail. Note that the sword cannot defend below the neck of a horse.	[4v-b] E aquesto portare di spada e molto fino ch'e ditto denanci che se porta contra lanza come e ditto denanci. Che porto la mia spada in posta donna sinistra. E da questo mi vene cum la lanza in resta per ferirmi, e non el cavallo, rebatero la sua lanza, e cum mia spada lo feriro senza fallo che la spada non po defendere basso per lo collo del cavallo.		[30b-b] Cum la spada tua lança io rebatero O de punta o de taglio io te feriro	[2v-b] ¶ Regia forma decet muliebris. teque mucrone Percutiens contra que furens transmittet ad umbras Hic animus / faveant illi modo numina caeli.
300px	300px	[8] So that you do not beat my lance out of the way, Under my left arm I carry it in rest.	Again this is another counter of lance against sword. He of the lance sets his lance in rest under his left arm so that his lance cannot be beaten aside. And in this fashion he can strike him of the sword with his lance. [In the Morgan, the Master's opponent is wearing a crown.]	[4v-d] Anchora e aquesto uno altro contrario de lanza contra spada. Che aquello dela lanza, meti e resta sua lanza sotto lo suo brazo stancho perche non sia rebatuda sua lanza. E per tal modo pora ferir cum sua lanza aquello della spada.	[42v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 42v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project (6903442).jpg	[30b-d] Perche tu non rebati mia lança fora destrada Soto el braço mancho io la porto arestada
300px		[9] At half-staff I come, approaching fast, So that you will delay in beating my lance. I trust I will strike your horse without fail; You will see my play carried out hereafter. [In the Pisani-Dossi, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	[In the Paris, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	[5r-a] [No text]	[43r-a] [No text]	[31a-a] A meça lança io vegno acossi ben asserato Che a'rebater mia lança tu sera intardato De ferir el tuo cavallo sença fallo el'credo Vederaii Lo mio çogho conpire aqui dedredo	[2v-c] ¶ Stringens membra simul, iaculum complector acerbus In medio. tardatus eris refringere tandem Vulnere letali sonipes tuus ictus abibit.
		[In the Getty, the Master on the left is missing his crown.]	This one with the sword awaits him with the lance. He waits in the Boar's Tusk as he with the lance comes, and then the Master with the sword beats his lance away toward the right side. And thus can the Master do with the sword, that is, he can cover in one rotation of the sword. [In the Morgan, the Master on the left is missing his crown.]	[5r-b] Aquesto cum la spada aspeta aquesto cum la lanza, e si lo aspeta in dente de zenghiare, como aquello cum la lanza gli vene apresso, lo magistro cum la spada rebati sua lanza in fora verso parte dritta. E acosi po far lo magistro cum la spada. ch'ello po covirre[!] in uno voltar de spada.	[43r-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 43r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project.jpg	[31a-b] [No text]	[2v-d] [No text]
		[10] So that you cannot cross your sword with my [weapon], I carry it low to waste your horse. [In the Pisani-Dossi, the Master is missing his crown.]	This is the counter of the play of the lance and the sword that came before, that is, that he with the lance strikes to the head of the horse of his enemy (that is, of him with the sword), because he cannot beat a lance or sword that is so low. [In the Morgan, the Master's opponent wears a crown.]	[5r-c] Aquesto e lo contrario dello zogo de lanza, e spada ch'e denanzi zoe che aquello cum la lanza fieri in la testa lo cavallo del suo inimigo zoe aquello dela spada perché non po rebater la lanza cum la spada si a basso.	[43r-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 43r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword - Google Art Project.jpg	[31a-c] Perche cum tua spada cum mi non possi incrosar Bassa la porto per lo tuo cavallo guastar
300px	300px	[11] Such a carry of the sword gives me four plays to make: I could strike with the point and the edge without fail, And also throw someone from horseback or take his sword. Seldom are these things failures to me.	This carry of the sword is called the Stance of the Long Tail (Posta di Coda Longa), and it is very good against lance and sword and against all other handheld weapons, while riding to the right side of the enemy. Bear well in mind that the thrusts and the backhand blows should be beaten out to the side and not upward, and the downward blows should also be beaten to the side (lifting the sword of the enemy slightly); [this guard] can make all the plays corresponding to the figures that are depicted.	[5v-b] Aquesto portar di spada si chiama posta de coda longa e si e molto bona, contra lanza e sp[ada], e contra ogni arma manuale. Cavalcando della parte dritta delo suo iminigo. E tente bene a mente che le punte e li colpi riversi si dibano rebater in fora zoe ala traversa e non in erto. E lli colpi di fendent si dibano rebater anche in fora levando un pocho la spada dello suo inimigo, e po fare gli zoghi segondo le figure depente	[43v-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 43v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project.jpg	[31b-a] Tal portar de spada quatro zoghi me fa far De punta e de taglio ferir posso sença fallar Anchora butar da cavallo e tore de spade Rare volte queste cosse me son fallade	[3r-d] ¶ Quattuor iste modus gestandi nempe mucronem Ne movet ad ludos. et acute cuspide prorsus Te feriam. caedetque artus cesura patentes Atque iterum de sede tua manifestus abibis Ense carens. et raro hominem modus iste fefellit
300px	300px	[12] Of these two guards I make no comparison; Whoever knows more, his judgment will overcome. And whoever will know to watch for deception Will be able to make the four aforesaid plays well. [In the Getty, the Master on the left is missing his crown.]	Again this same Stance of the Long Tail is good when one comes against you with the sword on the left-hand side, as this enemy of mine does, and know that this guard counters all blows from the right side and from the left side, and counters anyone, be they right- or left-handed. And hereafter commence the plays of the Long Tail, which always beats in the fashion that was said earlier in the first Guard of the Long Tail.	[5v-d] Anchora aquesta propria guardia de coda longa si e bona quando uno gli vene in contra cum la spada a man riversa, come vene questo mio inimigo, e sapia che questa guardia e contra tuti colpi de parte dritta e di parte riversa, e contra zaschuno che sia drito o manzino. E aqui de driedo comenzano gli zoghi de coda longa che sempre rebati per lo modo ch'e ditto denanci in prima guardia de coda longa.	[43v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 43v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project.jpg	[31b-c] De queste due guardie io non faço conperacion Chi piu savera e pora vinçera sua oppinion E chi dele viste falsse se savera guardar, Aquilli quatro zoghi dicti ben li pora far
	300px	[13] This is an equal crossing, without advantage; Whoever has more art and malice begins the action.	These two Masters are here crossed at the full sword. And that which one can do, the other can do also, that is, he can do all the plays of the sword with this crossing. But crossing is of three categories (that is, from the full sword to the tip of the sword), and whoever is crossed at the full sword can withstand a little, and whoever is crossed at mid-sword can withstand less, and whoever at the tip of the sword can withstand nothing. So the sword, as such, has three things: that is, a little, less, and nothing. [In the Paris, the Master on the right is missing his crown.]	[6r-b] Quisti doi magistri sono aqui incrosadi a tuta spada. E zo che po far uno po far l'altro, zoe che po fare tuti zoghi de spada cum lo incrosar. Ma lo incrosar si e de tre rasone, zoe a tuta spada, e punta de spada. E chi e incrosado a tuta spada pocho gle po stare. E chi e incrosado a meza spada meno gle po stare. E chi a punta de spada niente gle po stare. Si che la spada si ha in si tre cose, zoe pocho, meno, e niente.		[32a-b] Questo e uno ingualivo e sença avantaço incrosar Chi ha piu arte e malicie si li començe a far	[3v-c] ¶ Vulnere terrifico cervicem vulnere luctans Cautus in ense prior docet hoc me nempe magister.
	300px	[14] This point I gladly have set in your throat Per the third Master [13] who demonstrates such a guard.	This is the first play which belongs to the Guard of the Long Tail which appeared here before, that is, that the Master beats the sword of his enemy and thrusts the point into his chest, or into his face as depicted here. [In the Paris, the Scholar wears a crown.]	[6r-a] Aque[sto] e lo primo zogho che esse dela guardia de coda longa ch'e aqui denanci, zoe che llo magistro rebatti la spada delo suo inimigo, e metegli la punta in lo petto, o vole in lo volto come aqui dipento.	[44r-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6885522).jpg	[32a-a] Questa punta in la golla volentera t'o posta Per lo terço magistro che tal guardia mostra	[3v-a] ¶ Cuspide mucronis transfigo guttur apertum Tertius edocuit nam me cum lege magister.
	300px	[15] Per the first Master that is in guard with the sword I have given this strike to your head.	This is the second play which can give a beat. I strike this man over the head, for I see well that he is not armored on his head.	[6r-c] Aquesto si e lo segondo zogo che puo de quello rebater Io fiero a costui sopra la testa che vezo bene che ello non e armado in la testa.	[44r-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6885522).jpg	[32a-c] Per lo primo magistro che sta in guardia cum spada Questa ferida in'su la testa tua io t'o dada
	300px	[16] By crossing ahead of your sword I have deviated it And with mine I have given a great blow: And also I could have given it to you with my point; And none of the weapons that you have could stop me.	Here is another play, which is the third that beats the sword of his enemy; he grasps with his left hand and strikes the [enemy's] head, and he could also strike thusly with the point.	[6r-d] Aquesto e uno altro zogo ch'e llo terzo che rebatuda la spada dello suo Inimigo ello la pigla cum la mane stancha e si gle feri la testa e acosi gle poria ferire de punta.	[44r-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6885522).jpg	[32a-d] Per lo incrosar denançi tua spada io o'suariada E cum la mia io t'o dada una rea spadaçada E cussi io t'averia possu dare cum'la punta Per li arme che tu non ha quello niente me monta
	300px	[17] You will lose your sword because of this catch Or you will go to the ground without any defense.	This is the fourth play that the scholar wants to make, that is, take the sword in this way that you can see depicted here. [In the Paris, the Scholar wears a crown.]	[6v-a] Aquesto si e lo quarto zogo che lo scolar gle vole fare zoe tore la spada per questo modo che vuii possite vedere aqui depento.	[44r-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6885522).jpg	[32b-a] La tua spada perderaii per questa presa O tu andara in'terra sença nesuna deffesa	[4r-b] ¶ Tu pudibundus obhoc ensem vel forte relinques Vel prostratus humi nullo prohibente iacebis.
	300px	[18] So that my sword would not be taken from me Against you I have made this turn: Such that that which you were wanting to do to me Through this counter I will do to you. [This Master is missing his crown.]	This is the fifth play, in which he wants to take the sword of his companion with the hilt of his sword; the other hilt he will have above, and the sword will fall from [his companion's] hand for certain.	[6v-b] Aquesto si e lo quinto che vol tore la spada al compagno. Cum lo mantenir dela spada, l'altro mantenir lavera in erto. Dela mane gli cadera la spada per certo.	[44v-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6887639).jpg	[32b-b] Perche la mia spada non me sia tolta Contra de ti io o fata questa volta Si che quello che tu vulivi far a'mii Per lo contrario quello io faço a'tii
	300px	[19] From horse to ground it will behoove you to go; Maybe I will then know what I should do with you.	This is the sixth play that makes a cover with the beating of the sword. I throw my arm to his neck and quickly turn, and I will throw you to the ground, sword and all, without a doubt. My counter is here after and is the seventh play. Well that he has not achieved being armored. [In the Paris, the Scholar wears a crown.]	[6v-c] Aquesto si e lo sexto zogo che fatta la coverta cum lo rebater de spada. Io glie buto lo brazo al collo in lo voltar subito. Cum tuta la spada in terra lo butero senza dubito. E lo mio contrario de dredo si e lo septimo zogo. Benche siando armado de farlo el non ha logo.	[44v-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6887639).jpg	[32b-c] Da cavallo in terra te conven andar Poii de ti savero che debero far	[4r-c] ¶ Expedit ut terram calcato pectore pulses. Quidque velim de te potero tentare deinde.
	300px	[20] If it would behoove me to go to the ground, [sword] and all, I could do no defense other than this strike.	This is the seventh play which is the counter, that is, the strike that he makes to the leg of the other one. If your companion were armored, you could not rely on this. [In the Morgan, the Master is missing his crown.]	[6v-d] Aquesto si e lo septimo zogo ch'e contrario dello ferire, ch'ello gli fa in la gamba aquello e desso. Se lo compagno fosse armado non te fidar in esso.	[44v-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6887639).jpg	[32b-d] Si del tuto in terra me conven andar Altra deffesa che questo ferir non posso far
		[21] I want to make my defense against the point and the edge, Such that the sword will not be taken from me nor caught, And neither will I be thrown to the ground from my horse: I will strike your face with my pommel without fail.	This is the eighth play and it is the counter to all the plays that came before, and especially of the plays of the sword on horseback and of the Masters that are in the Guard of the Long Tail. And when the Masters or Scholars stand in the aforesaid guard and I strike with a thrust or another blow, and they quickly beat my sword, I immediately give a turn to my sword and with my pommel I strike them in the face. And I can pass with my cover quickly and strike them behind the head with a backhand middle cut.	[7r-a] Aquesto si e lo ottavo zogo ch'e contrario de tuti li zoghi che mi sono denanci. E maximamente deli zoghi de spada a cavallo, e deli lor magistri che sono in guardia de coda longa. Che quan li magistri, o scolari stano in la ditta guardia e io tra una punta, o altro colpo. E subito elli me rebateno, o taio, o punta che faza. Quando elli me rebateno subito io do volta ala mia spada e cum lo pomo mio io fero in lo volto. E poii passo cum la mia coverta presta. E cum lo riverso tondo gli fero dredo la testa.	[44v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 44v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword - Google Art Project (6887639).jpg	[33a-a] Per punta e taglio voio far mia deffesa Anchora che la spada non me sia tolta ne presa Ne che sia butado per terra de mio cavalo Lo volto te feriro cum lo pomo si non fa lo	[4v-b] ¶ Protego cesura me nunc / ac cuspide forti. Et capulo faciem ferio / ne prensus hic ensis Sit mihi / sim terram nec adhuc proiectus ad imam.
	300px	[22] So that you could not hit me in the face with your pommel, I have taken your blow with the hilt of my sword. [This Master is missing his crown.]	The ninth I am, who makes the counter to that which came before me, so that when he gives a turn to his sword I quickly thrust my hilt (as you see depicted) so that he cannot strike me in the face with his pommel. And if I raise my sword high and give a turn to the left, it could very well be that his sword will be taken from him. And if that fails me and I cannot do it, so quickly will I make the turn that I will give to his face with the false edge of my sword or I will strike him in the head with my pommel. This finishes the mounted play of sword against sword, and whoever keeps it in mind will give a good deal.	[7r-b] Lo nono sone che fazo lo contra lo contrario che m'e denanci. Che quando ello da volta ala sua spada, subito lo mio mantenere meto como vuii vedeto depento, che cum lo pomo in lo volto non me po ferire, e s'io levo la spada in erto e dello riverso io piglo volta. Ben poria essere che la spada ti sara tolta. E si aquello mi falla che io non lo faza, dello riverso dela spada ti daro in la faza overo dello pomo ti firiro in la testa tanto faro una volta presta. Aqui finisse lo zogo a cavalo de spada a spada chi piu ne sa men dia una bona derada.	[45r-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword and Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33a-b] Perche tu non me daghi del pomo in lo volto Cum lo mio mantiner de spada tuo colpo o tolto
	300px	[23] In such a way have I grabbed you, running up behind, That I will throw you from the horse—this I believe.	This is a play of grappling, and inasmuch as it is a play of grappling it is a play of the arms, and it is done in this way: when one flees from you and you come up behind him from the left side, grab him on the cheek of his helmet with your right hand (or, if he is unhelmed, grab him by the hair or the right arm from behind his shoulder), and in this way you will make him fall backward such that you will make him go to the ground. [In the Paris, the Master is missing his crown.]	[7v-a] Aquesto e zogo de abrazar e tanto, e a dire zogo de abrazar che zogo di braci, e si fa per tal modo. Quando uno te fugi e dela parte stancha tu gli ven apresso Cum la man dritta tu lo pigli in lo sguança dello bacinetto, e s'ello e desarmado per gli cavili, Overo per lo brazo dritto, per dredo le sue spalle, per tal modo lo faraii arivesare, Che in terra lo faraii andare.	[45r-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword and Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33a-c] Acossi come io t'o preso corandoti dredo Da cavallo te butero e questo io credo	[5r-b] ¶ Te galea prensum teneo / qui terga revolvis. In terram post te currendo pectore mittam.
	300px	[24] You wanted to throw me from my horse But with this counter you will go to the ground instead.	This is the counter to the play that came before; this counter goes in this way with the catch that was made, that is, that quickly when he grabs him from behind, [the Master] should immediately exchange the hand on the reins, and with his left arm he should grab him in this fashion.	[7v-b] Aquesto e contrario dello zogo che dinanci me va per tal modo aquesto contrario cum tal presa se fa zoe che subito quando ello per dredo lo piglia la man della brigla debia subito scambiare. E cum lo brazo stancho, per tal modo lo de piglare.	[45r-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword and Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33a-d] Da cavallo me vulisti pur butare E cum questo contrario in terra te conven andare	[5r-c] ¶ Ut modo tellurem calcato corpore tundas Est opus . hoc faciunt contraria gesta . malignus Tu tamen illud idem mihimet tentare cupisti.
	300px	[25] I want to lift your leg with the stirrup, And because of this, to the ground you will go. [In the Getty, the Master is missing his crown.]	This Scholar wants to throw this one from his horse, that is, he grabs him by the stirrup and lifts him up. If he doesn't go to the ground, he would clearly be floating in the air! Assuming he isn't lashed to his horse, this play cannot fail. If he does not have his foot in a stirrup, grab him by the ankle and it will be even easier to lift him up than I said before so do as was written here earlier. [In the Morgan, the Master is missing his crown.]	[7v-c] Aquesto scolar vole butar questo da cavallo zoe che lo pigla per la staffa e levalo in erto. S'ello non va in terra in aere stara per certo. Salvo che se non e a cavallo ligado. Aquesto zogo non po essere falado. S'elo non ha lo pe in la staffa per lo collo del pe lo pigla che piu vale levando in erto come denanci e ditto, fate aquello ch'e denanzi aqui scrito.	[45r-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45r - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Sword and Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33b-a] La staffa cum la gamba te voio levar E per questo in terra te convien andar	[5v-b] ¶ Crure simul stafile levans / te vertet ad imum Hec mea dextra potens. nec erit quae molliat artus.
	300px	[26] You wanted to throw me well from my horse; With this counter, to the ground you will go.	This here is the counter of the play that appeared before it, so if one grabs you by the stirrup or by the foot, throw your arm to his neck. You should do this quickly, for in this fashion you could dismount him from his horse; if you do this, he will hit the ground without fail.	[7v-d] Lo contrario aqui del zogo ch'e denanci aparechiado et se uno te pigla per la staffa overo per lo pe, Butagle lo brazo allo collo, aquesto subito far se de. E per tal modo lo porai descavalcare da cavallo. S'tu fai aquesto ello andera per terra senza fallo.	[45v-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45v - Fiore dei Liberi - Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33b-b] De cavallo tu me volisti ben butare Cum questo contrario in terra te conven andare	[5v-c] ¶ Aspice quam forti teneo tua colla lacerto Qui modo per terram frustra conatus inermem Spargere tentabas. sed te contraria vincunt .
	300px	[27] I want to throw you and your horse to the ground; The breast of mine will go to the haunches of yours: I will not release the bit of your horse, And in the end you will not avoid the ground; And when one is well armored this is a fine hold, Because against armor you cannot make an offense. [In the Getty, the Master is missing his crown.]	This is a play of throwing one to the ground, horse and all, that is that the Master rides to the right side of his enemy and throws his right arm over the neck of his [enemy's] horse. And he grabs the bridle of his [enemy's] horse behind the bit, rotates the head of the horse up, and he should spur his horse with his foot striking the rump or flanks. And in this way he will fall, horse and all…	[8r-a] Aquesto e uno zogo de butare uno in terra cum tuto lo cavallo zoe che lo magistro cavalcha dela parte dritta dello suo Inimigo, e buta lo suo brazo dritto per sopra lo collo dello suo cavallo. E pigla la brena delo so cacavallo[!] apresso lo morso, revoltando la testa dello cavallo in erto e llo suo debia speronare che lo suo cavallo cum lo suo petto fiera in gropa overo in gli fianchi del suo cavallo. E per tal modo cadera cum tuto lo cavallo. Lo contrario de questo magistro che vole butare in terra lo suo inimigo cum tuto lo cavallo. Si e aquesto che subito quando lo magistro pigla la sua brena. Che ello debia butare lo brazo al collo per modo che fa lo quarto zugadore che m'e denanci per tal modo andera in terra.	[45v-b] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45v - Fiore dei Liberi - Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33b-c] Ti e'l tuo cavallo per terra voio butar Lo peto del mio in la gropa del tuo faro andar Del tuo cavallo non voio lassar el morsso Infin che tu non va in terra descorsso E quando uno e ben armato questa e fina presa Por che cum arme non gli po far offesa	[4v-c] ¶ Teque tuum iaciam nullo prohibente caballum Cuius clune / mei pectus fremitando sedebit. Quadrupedis nec linquo tui resonantia frena / Donec humum praeceps limosam vertice tangas. Ista quidem armato valet optima captio / possuntque Ledere non armis ullum sibi posse pavescit
		[28]	…This is the counter of the play that came before in which he wants to throw his companion to the ground along with his horse. This is an easy thing to remember, that when the Scholar throws his arm over the neck of his horse to grab the bridle, the player should quickly throw an arm to the neck of the Scholar, and thus he is forced to release it. Following that which you see depicted here, so should you do.		[45v-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45v - Fiore dei Liberi - Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg
	300px	[29] I seek to take the bridle from your hands And I want to throw it over the head of your horse: And when the bridle will be thrown over its head, With my position I will lead you to a different country. [In the Getty, the Master is missing his crown.]	This is a play of taking the bridle of a horse from the hand of your companion in the way that you see depicted here. The Scholar, when he goes against another on horseback, should ride to the right side and throw his right arm over the neck of the horse, grabbing its bridle near his hand on the left-hand side, and so take the bridle off the horse's head. And this play is more secure in armor than unarmored.	[8r-b] Aquesto e uno zogho de tore la brena dello cavallo dela maane delo compagno per modo che voii vedite aqui dipento, lo scolar quando ello se scontra cum uno altro da cavallo, ello gle cavalcha dela parte dritta, e butagli lo suo brazo dritto per sopra lo collo del cavallo, e pigla la sua brena apresso la sua man sinistra cum la sua man riversa. E tra la brena delo cavallo dela testa. E aquesto zogo e piu seguro armado che disarmado.	[45v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 45v - Fiore dei Liberi - Unarmed Equestrian Combat - Google Art Project.jpg	[33b-d] Per tor la brena de mano aquello cercho de far E dela testa del tuo cavallo la voio tirar E quando la brena sera dela testa tirada A mia posta io te menaro in altra contrada
300px	300px	[30] This Master has lashed a cord to his saddle And to the foot of his lance, which is cruel and destructive, To throw to the neck of his enemy, In order to drag him to the ground; so do I say.	This Master has lashed a strong cord (that is, one end) to the saddle of his horse, and the other end is lashed to the foot of his lance. First he wants to strike, and then to put the tied part of the lance to the left of his enemy, throwing it over his shoulder, and thereby to be able to pull him off his horse and onto the ground.	[2v-a] ¶ Aquesto magistro ha ligada una forte corda alla sella dello suo cavallo, zoe uno cavo, e l'altro cavo si a ligado alo pe della sua lanza primo lo vol ferir e poii la lanza a cosi ligada della parte stancha delo suo inimigo sopra la spalla la vole butar, per poterlo zo dello cavallo strasinare.	[46v-a] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 46v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Dagger - Google Art Project.jpg	[34b-a] Questo magistro si'a ligada una corda ala sella E al pe dela sua lança ch'e si crudele e fella Per butarla a lo collo delo suo inimigo Pur per strasinarlo in terra zo io ve digo
		[31] This Ribald fled from me toward a fortress; he coursed so much that I overtook him near the fortress, always coursing at full rein. And from my sword I struck him under the armpit, there where a man can only poorly armor himself. And then for fear of his friends I want to turn back.			[46v-c] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 46v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Dagger - Google Art Project.jpg
		Here ends the Flower of the Art of Combat, In this way one man can stand against another: Made by Fiore Furlano, son of Sir Benedetto; Those who knew him can well believe his words.	Here ends the book that was made by the Scholar Fiore, and all that he knows in this art (that is, the fullness of armizare) he has placed here in this book. And Fior di Bataglia he has called this flower by name. He for whom he has made it shall always be praised, because you will not find his equal in Nobility and virtue. Fiore Furlano, a wretched old man, commends himself to you.		[46v-d] Page:Getty Ms. Ludwig XV 13 46v - Fiore dei Liberi - Equestrian Combat with Lance and Dagger - Google Art Project.jpg	[36b-a] Aqui finisse el fior de'l'arte delo armiçar Per che modo uno homo l'altro po contrastar Facto per fior furlano de meser benedecto Chi l'a chognosudo ben po creder suo decto	[44r-c] ¶ Florius hunc librum quondam pritissimus auctor Edidit. Est igitur sibi plurima laudis honestas Contribuendo viro Furlana gente profecto.