Federico Grisone's The Rules of Riding" Gli ordini di cavalcare: An edited translation of the first renaissance treatise on classical horsemanship" (Grisone Federigo)(Pevná vazba)

Federico Grisone published Gli ordini di cavalcare (The Rules of Riding) in 1550, the first manual on mange riding, the ancestor of modern dressage. The Ordini codified a half-century of oral tradition of teaching this art and was a best seller and a welcome aid in educating noblemen at European courts in the art of the mange. Elizabeth Tobey and Federica Brunori Deigan have prepared the first modern edited English translation of the Ordini, which should interest Renaissance scholars and equestrians, and includes an introductory essay, a glossary of equestrian terms, and the transcription of the 1550 Italian first edition.Grisone's treatise and the riding masters trained at his riding academy in Naples, Italy, spread the practice of the art of mange riding to courts throughout Europe. Twenty-three Italian editions of the text were
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