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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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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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“Maneggi and jumps”. The basic exercises of Renaissance horsemanship (Part 2)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini At the beginning of the second part of his Trattato dell’imbrigliare, atteggiare e ferrare cavalli (Treatise on bridling, training and shoeing horses, 1556), Cesare Fiaschi explicitly states his intention…
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