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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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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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Marco de Pavari and the dominion of pleasantness
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini [This is the text of my speech at the Resolution Day, organized by Francesco Vedani at the Spia d’Italia Riding Center in Lonato del Garda (Italy),on Sunday, December 3,…
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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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The breeds of the Kingdom. An unpublished manuscript by Federico Grisone (Part 2)
CLICK TO READ MORE____________________________________ In the first part of this article [to read it just click on the foregoing link], we saw that the Fund Osuna of the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid holds…
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The breeds of the Kingdom. An unpublished manuscript by Federico Grisone (Part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin’s standard of living became a legend. Within a few decades, the twelfth Duke of Osuna (1814-1882) was able to squander the immense patrimony…
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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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“Maneggi and jumps”. The basic exercises of Renaissance horsemanship (Part 1)
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini There has never been just one horsemanship. The use of the horse for different needs, and by peoples who lived in different latitudes, led to the development of different…
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