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Chapter 1: Guards

Prima

Secunda (Plate 1)

Tertia (Plate 2)

Quarta (Plate 3)

Chapter 2: Postures (Plate 4) [1 Play]

Chapter 3: Divisions of the Sword (Plate 5)

Chapter 4: How You Shall Recognize the Near and Wide Measure (Plates 6, 7) [1 Play, 1 Video, 1 Commentary]

Chapter 5: About the Movement of the Body [1 Video, 1 Commentary]

Chapter 6: How You Shall Approach (Plate 7) [1 Video, 1 Commentary]

Chapter 7: How You Shall Lunge

Lunge in Quarta (Plate 8) [1 Play, 2 Videos, 1 Commentary]

Lunge in Quatra Under the Arm (Plate 53) [1 Play, 1 Commentary]

Lunge in Tertia (Plate 9) [1 Play, 2 Videos, 1 Commentary]

Lunge in Secunda (Plates 10, 13) [1 Play, 2 Videos]

Riposte in Quatra Over the Arm (Plate 53) [1 Play, 1 Commentary]

Chapter 8: How You Shall Parry and Riposte

Parry and Riposte in Quarta (Plate 11) [3 Plays, 1 Video]

Parry and Riposte in Tertia (Plate 12, 8, 53) [3 Plays, 1 Commentary]

Concerning the Parry Below in Secunda (Plates 13, 52) [1 Play, 1 Commentary]

Parry up in Secunda (Plates 14, 10) [2 Plays, 1 Commentary]

Delete me

Delete me too

Chapter 9: In What Way You Shall Engage the Blade [1 Commentary]

Chapter 10: About the Simple Disengagement

Disengagement-thrust in Quarta (Plate 15) [1 Play]

Disengagement-thrust in Tertia (Plate 16) [1 Play]

Disengagement-thrust in Secunda Low (Plate 17) [1 Play]

Disengagement-thrust in Secunda High (Plate 28) [1 Play]

Chapter 11: Making Feints

Feint in Quarta (Plate 18) [1 Play]

Feint in Tertia (Plates 19, 8) [1 Play]

Feint in Secunda (Plates 20, 52, 38) [3 Plays]

Feint to the Head (Plate 21) [1 Play]

Chapter 12: Making Double Feints

Feint Outside and Inside (Plate 22) [1 Play]

Double Feint to Head (Plates 23, 52)

Chapter 13: In What Form You Shall Make Double Parries

Double Parry in Quarta (Plate 24)

Double Parry in Tertia (Plates 25, 9, 14)

Double Parry in Secunda (Plate 26)

Chapter 14: How You Shall Thrust in on the Blade in Two Tempi

Gliding Thrust in Quarta (Plate 27)

Gliding Thrust in Tertia (Plate 9)

Gliding Thrust in Secunda (Plate 28)

Gliding Thrust in Low Quarta (Plate 52)

Chapter 15: How You Shall Make a Half-thrust or Appel on the Blade

Appel in Tertia (Plate 29)

Appel in Quarta (Plates 30, 10)

Appel Against High Guard (Plate 13)

Chapter 16: How You Shall Make the Appels Off the Blade

Appel in Secunda (Plates 20, 10)

Appel in Quarta (Plates 9, 30, 8)

Chapter 17: How You Shall Gain and Bind the Blade

Binding (Plate 31)

Counter to the Bind (Plate 45)

Chapter 18: How You Shall Engage From Outside Measure

Engage When Weak on Weak (Plates 6, 32)

Engage With Feints (Plate 38)

Chapter 19: Stepping Vs. Jumping Backwards

Chapter 20: How You Shall Make Passades (Passing Steps)

The Passade in Tertia (Plates 33, 54)

The Passade in Secunda Above the Arm (Plate 34)

The Passade Below in Secunda (Plate 35)

The Passade Using the Hand Like a Dagger (Plates 1, 36)

Chapter 21: The Passade in Secunda Above the Arm

Volta on the Outside (Plates 37, 45)

Volta on the Inside in Quarta (Plate 38)

Volta Under His Arm (Plates 39, 54)

The Contra-volta (Plate 40)

How You Shall Act Against the Voltas and Receive the Adversary (Plate 41)

Chapter 22: In What Form You Shall Seize and Take the Sword (Plate 42)

Chapter 23: How You Can Diasrm the Enemy in Various Ways

Disarm in Quarta (Plates 43, 50)

Disarm in Tertia (Plate 44)

Disarm in Quarta Under His Arm (Plate 53)

Captureing the Sword While Letting It Run Off (Plate 45)

Injuring the Adversary With His Own Sword (Plate 46)

Defense Against a Disarm (Plate 42)

Chapter 24: How, When Passing, You Can Throw the Enemy Down

Throw Using a Passing Step (Plate 47)

Throw When Opponent Uses a Passing Step (Plate 48)

Breaking Someone's Leg When Passing (Plate 49)

Breaking the Enemy's Arm or Neck in Seizing (Plate 50)

Chapter 25: How You Shall Disengage and Counter-disengage, Parry, and Thrust With It

Beginning in Quarta (Plates 51, 8)

Beginning in Tertia

Beginning in Secunda

Disengage and Parry at the Same Time

Chapter 26: How You Shall Thrust in the Feints or Tempo

Beginning in Secunda (Plates 52, 45)

Beginning in Quarta

Tempo-thrust in Quarta Under the Arm (Plates 53, 54)

Contra-tempo (Plates 53, 54)

Chapter 27: How From One Posture You Shall Form Another (Plate 55)

Chapter 28: How You Shall Break the Measure

Pulling Back Left Foot (Plates 56, 49)

Pulling Back Right Foot (Plate 41)

Chapter 29: How You Shall Defend Yourself With Your Sword in Both Hands (Plate 57)

Chapter 30: How to Parry With the Left Hand (Plates 58, 34)

Chapter 31: How One Can Caminiren (Proceeding with Resolution) and Injure the Enemy While Walking (Plate 59)

Chapter 32: About the Angles Thrusts, Which are done in the following manner

Beginning in Quarta with a disengage (Plates 60, 44)

Beginning in Quarta with a Feint (Plate 53)

Beginning in Secunda (Plate 34)

Chapter 33: In What Manner the Lowered Thrusts Are made

Lowered Secunda (Plate 61)

Lowered Quarta

Lowered Quarta on the Outside

Chapter 34: How to Act against someone who fights left-handed

Outside in Quarta

Secunda

Passing Steps Against the lefthander

Volta in Quarta

Chapter 35: About a Good and Proficicent Sword

Chapter 36: About a Suitable Place to use the fencing with sharps