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A book that changed my life. A personal tribute to Sylvia Loch.
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini It seems that nowadays we read less and less. Or rather, it seems we read fewer and fewer books. The crisis of this powerful means of communication is…
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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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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 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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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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