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Horses that looked like flame!
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In 1565, a large equestrian feast was held in Lisbon to celebrate the marriage of Alessandro Farnese with Maria of Portugal. A chronicle of the period testifies of…
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A riding academy in Sicily during the Renaissance: the Congregazione dei Cavalieri d’Armi
CLICK TO READ MOREdi Giovanni Battista Tomassini At dawn on Friday, May 18, 1565, the sentinels of the Knights of Malta saw on the horizon, the sails of the Turkish fleet, commanded by Admiral Piyale…
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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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