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Without horses I’m not even the half of myself. The equestrain passion of Vittorio Alfieri. Part 2
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article, we discovered the great passion for horses and horseback riding of Vittorio Alfieri, one of the greatest Italian poets of the eighteenth…
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Without horses I’m not even the half of myself. The equestrian passion of Vittorio Alfieri. Part 1
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Given the perverse imagination of those who draw up the syllabus, I do not know if today he is still studied at school. To be honest, when I was…
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The Saracen Joust in Piazza Navona (part 2)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article we analyzed the rules of the Saracen Joust in the seventeenth century. In this second part, we discover the complex dramaturgy of…
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The Saracen Joust in Piazza Navona (part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini With the typical unscrupulousness of the Popes of the time, in 1628, Urban VIII ordained his nephew as cardinal when he was just twenty. In a short time,…
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The cheerfulness of the horse. Giovanni de Gamboa, a pupil of Pignatelli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini “The cheerfulness of the horse is the most beautiful part of him, and the most valuable.” I think this sentence is enough to guess the great interest, but…
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Memories of a gentleman: Adriano Capuzzo
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini On the third anniversary of Adriano Capuzzo’s death, the book containing his writings and the testimonies of his students, edited by Patrizia Carrano, can be downloaded for free…
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Marco de Pavari and the dominion of pleasantness
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini [This is the text of my speech at the Resolution Day, organized by Francesco Vedani at the Spia d’Italia Riding Center in Lonato del Garda (Italy),on Sunday, December 3,…
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The origin of the word “carousel”
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini When the first squad of riders made their entrance into the floodlit courtyard, from the boxes and the stands thronged by the audience, came a murmuring of astonishment that,…
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The breeds of the Kingdom. An unpublished manuscript by Federico Grisone (Part 2)
CLICK TO READ MORE____________________________________ In the first part of this article [to read it just click on the foregoing link], we saw that the Fund Osuna of the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid holds…
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The breeds of the Kingdom. An unpublished manuscript by Federico Grisone (Part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin’s standard of living became a legend. Within a few decades, the twelfth Duke of Osuna (1814-1882) was able to squander the immense patrimony…
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The stars and the horses
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Given the wide diffusion of astrology during the Renaissance, it is not surprising that, at that time, the belief that the stars had a decisive influence, not on only…
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