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Marozzo’s First Assault, part one (Capitula 10, p17)

Interpretation by Gary Chelak, Tattershall School of Defense

Source

Art of Arms (Arte del Armi), by Achille Marozzo, dated 1568, printed in Venice. Some translation by William

Wilson, remainder by Gary Chelak.

Necessary skills

> Footwork: passo, gran passo

> Guards: Coda Lunga e Larga, Guardia di Testa, Guardia Alta, Coda Lunga e Distessa, Coda Lunga e Stretta,

Porta di Ferro Stretta.

> Attacks: mandritta, molinello, montante, mandritto sgualembratto, mandritto, rover-

so, stoccata, tramazzone, roverso sgualembratto, tramazzoni, mandritto tondo

The Assault

On one side of the room, stand as such:

- brochiero on your upper thigh

- right foot close by your left in good form

- sword in Coda Lunga e Larga w/ arm extended

- body upright, as courteous as possible

Coda Lunga e Larga

Advance right foot & cut with the false edge at the cup of the brochiero, and bring the

cup close to your face

Gran passo forward w/ the left foot

Touch the sword w/ the brochiero

End in Guardia di Testa, with the arm extended

Turn point towards the ground and strike your brochiero w/ the false edge

Guardia di Testa

Throw a high upwards cut with the right hand, and in this cut you do a molinello by

making a gran passo forward with the right foot

(Marozzo notes elsewhere in the text that a montante ends in Guardia Alta)

Gran passo with the left foot, (sword) going over the brochiero & touch the brochiero

w/ the pommel inside the rim (between rim & cup)

Bring the sword forward and place the sword point toward the ground,

Then bring the right foot forward of the left and cut montante

End in Guardia Alta & your brochiero extended

Cut fendente against the rim of the brochiero with your right foot back

After, throw the left behind/to the right

End in Coda Lunga e Distessa.

Guardia Alta

Finally, make a gran passo with the left foot forward of the right, touching the sword

with the brochiero & going into Guardia di Testa.

Bring the false edge of the sword toward the copula del brochiero,

Make a gran passo with the right foot forward of the left, and immediately cut with a

montante as the right foot comes left. End in Guardia Alta with your arm extended.

Coda Lunga e Distessa

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Your left thigh will be guarded from your enemy and your right foot will be extended.

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You will have reached your enemy being agente or patiente. But I suggest you be

agente (active: the one attacking). You should be in Guardia Alta with the right foot

forward. Attack with a mandritto sgualembratto that goes over the arm with your buck-

ler extended toward of your enemy. Immediately move the right foot close by the left,

& if in that time your enemy attacks to the head or cut to the leg with a mandritto; or

a roverso, or a thrust, or a tramazzone: I want you in the same time as you make a gran

passo w/ the right foot. And you will throw a roverso sgualembratto against the rim of

the brochiero and you will end in the Coda Lunga e Stretta. (This attacking action

creates your defence, closing off the available lines of attack).

Guardia Alta

And if your enemy throws at your head, then I want you to bring the point under the

brochiero (thrust or not, either way) and then cut with two tramazzoni at the enemy’s

face. End in the Porta di Ferro Stretta.

In this guard you are open to an attack to the head, so bring up your sword &

brochiero into the Guardia di Testa & parry the cut. (static block).

Coda Lunga e Stretta

Immediately after the parry, throw a mandritto tondo at the legs while stepping with

the right foot forward of the left.

Then throw roverso sgualembratto & immediately rising a montante to the brochiero,

end in Guardia Alta with both arms extended.

Now, to embellish the play:

Next make a gran passo hurling the right foot behind the left and cut fendente to the

rim of the buckler, throwing the left foot close by the right. Immediately hurl the said

left forward. Here, you will make a touch of the buckler and in doing so, do a half turn

with the ﬁst, that is to move the point of the sword toward of the ground (blade over

the buckler, in front, so they don’t get hung up) and touch the cup of the brochiero

with the false edge of the sword and pass the right foot in a gran passo forward of the

left.

Porta di Ferro e Stretta

Bring the left foot back to the right while mounting a montante with the throw of the

brochiero & end in Guardia Alta with the brochiero as extended as possible.

Guardia di Testa

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