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A very important discovery: the equestrian treatise of the Lord of Lugny
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini In an absorbing and very interesting book, just published in France, Frédéric Magnin presents a hitherto unknown equestrian treatise of a French author of the late Renaissance. It…
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“A la brida” and “a la gineta.” Different riding techniques in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini Defining, in his Book of the Courtier (1528), the ideal features of the Renaissance gentleman, Baldassare Castiglione wrote: “I would hope that our Courtier is a perfect horseman in…
12/02/2014
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