Then Tristano rode out of the city, and, warning the troops of the count, here began to deliver fierce blows. He lowered his good lance and rode against them, so that before it broke, he had used it to send thirteen knights dead to the ground. Afterwards, he took his sharp Vistamara in hand and began to fight with great vigor. He came sending to the earth knights and horses, and many barons; and whoever felt one of his blows wanted no other, for they fell to the ground stunned or truly dead, so that they had no use for doctors or other medicine.

La Tavola Ritonda