Learning Fiore De Liberi

This is another defense that you can do against a thrust, namely when one draws a thrust at you, as I said to you in the Exchange of Thrusts in the second play that is before me, you have to accrease and step out of the way. In the same way you do this play but the Exchanging of thrusts goes with a thrust with the arms low and with the point of the sword high as is said before. But this is called Breaking the Thrust because the Scholar goes with the arms high and makes a fendente with an accrease stepping out of the way and strikes across the thrust near to the middle of the sword to beat it ot he ground. And then immediately comes to the close.