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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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Back to Belem. The inauguration of the new arena of the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art in Lisbon
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini pictures by Melis Yalvac, Rita Fernandes and Bruno Barata At the center of the arena, Quejal is elegantly piaffing between the pillars. There is no tension in the ropes…
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The new Equestrian Art Library in Queluz, Portugal
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Perhaps some of you may think that this is a place just for scholars or old-fashioned professors’ stuff. But the Equestrian Art Library “Dom Diogo de Bragança, VIIII Marques de…
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The Giannelli Collection of ancient bits on display in Travagliato
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Hidden treasures are still discovered, even today. For those who love the history of horsemanship, to visit the exhibition of the Giannelli collection in Travagliato, Italy, is like…
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A new generation of Italian riders
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini There are historical reasons why, in our country, even though Italy has been the cradle of equestrian academic art, we have lost the tradition of classical horsemanship. Between the…
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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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Resolution Day: Chronicle of a successful experiment
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini I beg the readers of this blog to grant me an exception. I know that you are used to reading on these pages stories that took place in…
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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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In horseback riding “it always remains something to desire”
CLICK TO READ MOREThere are many topics used by the authors of equestrian treatises to describe the qualities of horseback riding. Some of them exalt the benefits it provides to health, others those provided to…
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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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