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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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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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Riding as a way to cultivate the soul. Dom Duarte and the remedies against fear
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the nature of the horse there is a duplicity that, for better or worse, has a deep impact on the relationship of this animal with man. In the…
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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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