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The Case of the Fake Medici-Ricciardi Horse Head
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini For several days, an image created with artificial intelligence has been going viral on social media, presented as the famous Medici-Ricciardi horse head, which is housed in the National…
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What do we mean when we talk of classical horsemanship?
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Although the expression “classical horsemanship” has long and widely been in use, its meaning continues to be rather vague and ambiguous. In some cases, in fact, the equestrian…
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A very important discovery: the equestrian treatise of the Lord of Lugny
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In an absorbing and very interesting book, just published in France, Frédéric Magnin presents a hitherto unknown equestrian treatise of a French author of the late Renaissance. It…
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The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 2)
CLICK TO READ MOREby 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…
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The role of the horse and of jousting in Renaissance culture (part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREdi Giovanni Battista Tomassini This is the first part of the text of the lecture I gave at the Biblioteca Malatestiana of Cesena, on the 19th of May 2019, in the context…
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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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Horses that looked like flame!
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In 1565, a large equestrian feast was held in Lisbon to celebrate the marriage of Alessandro Farnese with Maria of Portugal. A chronicle of the period testifies of…
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Dom Duarte’s travel
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini When in 1820, José Xavier Dias da Silva discovered that a large in folio volume kept in the Royal Library of Paris contained two manuscripts, hitherto unknown, of…
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Equestrian traditions of the Roman Carnival during the Renaissance
CLICK TO READ MOREdi Giovanni Battista Tomassini This is the text of the lecture I gave on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, during the final symposium of the 9th edition of the Roman Carnival. I am…
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A riding academy in Sicily during the Renaissance: the Congregazione dei Cavalieri d’Armi
CLICK TO READ MOREdi 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…
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Anglomania (Part 2): Federico Mazzucchelli witness and critic of the “British Fashion”
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article we saw that, in the eighteenth century, a growing interest in the British institutions and culture spread throughout Europe. This trend also…
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Anglomania (Part 1): The spreading of English style equitation in the Eighteenth century
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini It seems that James Seymour’s passion for horses and horse racing finally led him to ruin. Not much is known of his life, but a chronicler of the…
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