A Partial Glossary of Period Fencing Terms http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/glossary.

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Some Period Fencing Terms

Extracted from:
Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay
Craig Turner and Tony Soper, Southern Illinois University Press, 1990,
which gives a summary of Saviolo, DiGrassi, and Silver, as well as some nice period background, and
which I have out of the UNC library and am never going to give back! :)

imbroccata: a thrust with the hand pronated (knuckles forward, palm outward) passing over the
opponent's hand and downward; also foin

inquartata: a sideways or backwards step with the rear foot together with a lowering of the body
underneath the incoming blade, dropping the left hand to the ground for support, followed by a
counterattack with line; also passata sotto. qv Vyvyan Broussard.

mandritta: a horizontal cut delivered with the palm upward and the knuckles leading, from right to left

punta riversa: a thrust with the hand in supination (knuckles down, palm inward), delivered from the
inside line, passing on either side of the opponent's ward, usually delivered on a step

riversi: a horizontal cut delivered with the palm downward and the knuckles leading, from left to right

stoccata: a thrust with the hand supinated (knuckles down, palm inward) rising from underneath the
opponent's ward; also thrust

stramazone: a vertical cut to the head, palm to the left

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