| Fortunosa | |
| a bassadanza for four | |
| Source: AW Smith (NYP), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| Music: Una Festivita Della Danza (DHDS) (one measure of intro) | |
| Starting position: the two couples are side by side, not one behind the other ("stand at the side of the hall, even") | |
| Section 1: | |
| 1 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 2 | The men go forward a doppio, left, and mezavolta; the women ripresa, left |
| 3 | The men return to their partner with a doppio, right, and mezavolta; the women ripresa, right |
| 4 | Everyone together do a ripresa, left |
| 5&6 | Volta del Gioioso (two sempi, right and left, ripresa, right) |
| Section 2: | |
| 7 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 8-10 | All do two sempi, left and right, and two doppi, left and right |
| 11 | The women do a (very small) ripresa, left (toward their partner), while the men do a riverentia and a mezavolta |
| 12 | All turn slightly toward their partner and riverentia, touching right hands, then complete the mezavolta (men face up, women down) |
| 13 | Ripresa, left (very small) |
| Section 3: | |
| 14&15 | The women go "downgroup", men "upgroup", with two sempi, right and left, and a doppio, right; mezavolta |
| 16 | Ripresa, left |
| 17&18 | The men Volta del Gioioso (two sempi, right and left, ripresa right), |
| as the women approach with two sempi and a doppio, starting right | |
| 19 | The men do two continentie, left and right, as the women do a ripresa, left |
| 20&21 | The women Volta del Gioioso (two sempi, right and left, ripresa right), |
| as the men approach with four sempi, starting left to end up in front of their partner | |
| Section 4: | |
| 22 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 23&24 | Partners take right hands and circle with two doppi, left and right |
| 25&26 | Take left hands and circle with two doppi, left and right |
| 27 | Drop hands and do two continentie, left and right |
| 28&29 | The women go "downgroup", men "upgroup", with two saltarelli, left and right; mezavolta |
| 30&31 | Two riprese, left and right |
| Section 5: | |
| 32 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 33&34 | Everyone approach with two doppi, left and right, and at the end the women mezavolta into their former places |
| 35&36 | Two riprese, left and right |
| 37 | Two continentie, left and right |
| 38-40 | The women go forward two sempi, left and right, and then two doppi, left and right turning on a path to return to their places |
| as the men do two riprese gallopate (large), turning first to the left, then to the right, then returning to their places with two sempi | |
| 41 | They join hands (all? Just couples?) and do a ripresa, left |
| 42&43 | Drop hands, do Volta del Gioioso (two sempi, right and left, ripresa right) |
| 44 | Two continentie, left and right |
| Dance does not repeat | |