Volta di Spada

Crossed blades with the Master crowned. — Fiore dei Liberi, Fior di Battaglia, c. 1410 — Getty MS Ludwig XV 13, fol. 25r (1st Master of the Wide Play). Wikimedia Commons ↗

Folio 1rItalian (Fiore)

— turn of the sword

Fiore's Turn of the Sword. Withdraw the point from the bind, rotate the blade around theirs, and strike from the opposite side.

A scholar's variation on the First Master: emphasize the rotation rather than the straight turn. The point traces a circle around their blade and re-presents from the far side.

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Incrosada

— the crossing

Both blades cross — at the tips or at mid-sword. A direct attack is closed.

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