She did so much with her good medicine that in thirty days Tristano was almost well. One day she said to him, "Knight, do you have the heart to leap?"

When Tristano said he did, she told him to try. He lept twenty-two feet, but the wound reopened. Then Isotta treated it some more, and did not ask him to test it until she was certain it was well healed. When she did, he lept thirty feet, and Isotta said, "Knight, now you are well." Still neither his strength nor good color had yet returned, his suffering had been so serious and lasted so long.

La Tavola Ritonda