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The Spanish Walk: classic exercise or circus trick?
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini There has been much discussion in the past, and horse lovers still are debating, if the so-called “Spanish walk” should be considered an exercise of the classical High School,…
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Bitless equitation in ancient times
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In recent years, the ability to ride a horse without using a bit, perhaps performing sophisticated dressage exercises, has often been presented as a demonstration of an innovative communication…
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The Corinthian bit
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Unlike what we have said about various civilizations of the Bronze Age, in Greece the practice of burying horse bits in graves was rare. Because of this, not many…
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Bronze Age bits
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini As we have seen in the myth of Pegasus and Bellerophon, in antiquity the application of the bit was considered a decisive moment for the horse’s submission to the…
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Bellerophon
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Son of Glaucus and grandson of Sisyphus, the king and founder of the city of Corinth, the hero was actually called Ipponoo and assumed the name of Bellerophon after…
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The bit that tamed the flying horse: Pegasus and Bellerophon
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the thirteenth of his Olimpyan odes, Pindar tells that the prince of Corinth, Bellerophon, suffered for a long time in the attempt to ride the untamed winged horse,…
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Kikkuli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini We know very little about this mysterious character, whose name, however, is remembered for being the author of the oldest text dedicated to the care and training of the…
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The oldest text dedicated to the care and training of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini If the oldest image of a domesticated horse can be traced back to the Sumerian civilization, the earliest written text dedicated to the care and training of the horse…
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The first domestication of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini The domestication of the horse, for the purpose of using it for chariots and equitation, came after a very slow process. The first relationship between horse and human, in…
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Hello fellow horse lovers!
CLICK TO READ MOREEven if as a journalist I work in the field of politics, since the beginning of my career, I continued to deal with literature and history. In recent years I have devoted…
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An encounter that never occurred. Baucher and Mazzucchelli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In 1948, the General Albert Decarpentry published a famous biography of the greatest French horseman of the nineteenth century, François Baucher. Speaking of his early years, Decarpentry said that…
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Federico Mazzucchelli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Descendant of one of the most prominent families from Brescia, the younger son of the Earl Gianmaria, Federico was born in 1747. He studied in Rome, showing even in…
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