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The many souls of a genius
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Bartabas, the great French equestrian artist, founder of Zingaro, reflects back over his life and career in a beautiful book, recently published in France. A book in which…
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New information about the life of Cesare Fiaschi
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini New interesting and unknown details of Cesare Fiaschi’s biography emerge from the study of some ancient sources, which illuminate, with a new light, one of the most interesting…
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Without horses I’m not even the half of myself. The equestrain passion of Vittorio Alfieri. Part 2
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article, we discovered the great passion for horses and horseback riding of Vittorio Alfieri, one of the greatest Italian poets of the eighteenth…
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Without horses I’m not even the half of myself. The equestrian passion of Vittorio Alfieri. Part 1
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Given the perverse imagination of those who draw up the syllabus, I do not know if today he is still studied at school. To be honest, when I was…
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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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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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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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