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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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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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In horseback riding “it always remains something to desire”
CLICK TO READ MOREThere are many topics used by the authors of equestrian treatises to describe the qualities of horseback riding. Some of them exalt the benefits it provides to health, others those provided to…
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