Showing posts with label Federico Grisone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federico Grisone. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2020

John Astley - Art of Riding 1584AD

 Salvete Omnes,
first day of October, uff, time flies, doesn't it?
I have for you all a very interesting  book - linked below - one of the first English treatises on horsemanship.

Namely, Sir John Astley, a Tudor courier and gentleman, wrote a book on horsemanship where ideas of the Italian (Grisone & Corte) and ancient Greek (Xenophon) horsemanship ideas had been combined (or so they say, I have not read it yer, just perusing).


 

here, on the world library archive.org  you may find the entire scan of his opus magnum
The Art of Riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alleged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent horsemen et al. (1584).



Valete

ps

since this is the Ink October starting tomorrow I may start doing a drawing a day. It may be lots of fun and quite a challenge.  how about you?

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Chodowiecki, Grisone et Jezdziec i Hodowca

Salvete Omnes,
[in Polish]
z czasopisma Jezdziec i Hodowca -

Pan Major J. K. Chodowiecki (mysle, ze jeszcze nie raz bedzie goscil na blogu jego glos) przytacza fragmenty z pracy niemieckiej (eg studia nad Grisone) streszczajacej dzielo hipologiczne neapolitanskiego mistrza kawalkatora Federico Grisone (Gli Ordini di cavalcare) - przy tym pisze imie i nazwisko tego slawnego kawalkatora za Niemcami jako Fryderyk Grisoni.

Streszczenie pracy Grisone'ego zostalo podzielone na 2 czesci publikowane w 2 numerach, ktore przeze mnie poskladane razem ponizej zalaczam:









 

 


przy okazyji to pan major nawiazuje do polskiego dziela 'Hippika' autorstwa rotmistrza husarskiego Krzysztofa Dorohoystajskiego wydanej niespelna 50 lat po dziele Grisone'ego.
Valete