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The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 2)
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article, we saw how horses and jousting played an important symbolic role during the Renaissance in the representation of the power of…
10/06/2019 -
A riding academy in Sicily during the Renaissance: the Congregazione dei Cavalieri d’Armi
di 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…
05/02/2017 -
“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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