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Federico Grisone

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33: 107: 224:, first published in 1550, where he applies severe practices. He used harsh methods to subdue the horse, using severe spurring and harsh bits (of some of which he was the inventor). Other examples of his cruel methods include placing live hedgehogs under the animal's tail, punishing a horse by placing a cat strapped to a pole under its belly, and forcing the horse's head under water to the point of near-drowning if it showed any fear of crossing water. 294:
Künstlicher Bericht und allerzierlichste Beschreybung des edeln, uhesten, unnd hochberümbten Ehrn Friderici Grisonis neapolitanischen hochlöblichen Adels: wie de Streitbarn Pferdt (durch welche ritterliche Tugendten mehreers Thails geübet) zum Ernst und ritterlicher Kurtzweil geschiekt und volkommen
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L'ecuirie du S. Federic Grison gentilhomme napolitain. En laquelle est monstré l'ordre & l'art de choysir, dompter, piquer, dresser & manier les chevaux, tant pour l'usage de la guerre qu'autre commodité de l'homme. Avec figures de diverses sortes de mors de bride. Nagueres traduitte
149:. This work was a best-seller of its time. Between 1550 and 1623, twenty-one Italian editions were printed; fifteen translated editions were published in French, seven in German, one in Spanish and six in English. The earliest of these, 420:
La gloria del cavallo. Opera ... divisa in dieci libri: ne' quali oltra gli ordini pertinenti alla cavalleria, si descrivono tutti i particolari, che son necessari nell'allevare, custodire, maneggiare, & curar cavalli
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zumachen. In sechs Bücher bester Ordnung woluerstendlichem Teutsch und zierlichen Figuren (mit Anhengung etzlicher Kampfstuck) dermassen in Druck verfertiget das dergleichen in Teutschland niemals ersehen worden
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Grisone was not an advocate of the now "classical" position that was first suggested by Xenophon, and instead preferred the rider to sit with his feet pushed well forward.
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and courtly riding. Referred to in his time as the "father of the art of equitation", he wrote the first book on this subject to be published in early modern Europe.
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Grisone was considered a master of his time, and his training methods had a great impact on the training of horses of his day. They spread into France, thanks to
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A newe booke, containing the arte of ryding, and breakinge greate Horses, together with the shapes and Figures of many and divers kyndes of Byttes...
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Grisone is well known for his rather forceful, sometimes cruel, methods of training. He was influenced by the famous general
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His training methods profoundly influenced the training of horses in his day, and were spread into France by
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Dalla prima volta pare che ogni cavallo gli ubbidisca a cenno, sì che i circostanti ne rimangono stupefatti
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Giovanni Battista Tomassini (27 March 2011). Federico Grisone: Padre dell'equitazione colta (in Italian).
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and published with plates from the original in 1560, is the earliest book in English on equitation.
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Grisone started a riding academy in Naples in 1532, and in 1550 published the influential
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There are several cases in his book "Gli Ordini di Cavalcare," or
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Grisone was admired and respected as a great master of his time.
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Histoire pittoresque de l'equitation ancienne & moderne
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Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, Supplément
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depiction of Grisone, from Charles Aubry (1798–1841),
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Johann Fayser den Jüngern von Arnstain (translator),
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Title-page of the first edition of Gli ordini di cavalcare, 1550
Neapolitan
treatise
horsemanship
a monochrome depiction of a man on horseback, surrounded by smaller images of the training of a horse for the battlefield
lithograph
Neapolitan
dressage
Xenophon
Thomas Blundeville
John Astley
Caracciolo
Giovanni Battista Pignatelli
Salomon de la Broue
Antoine de Pluvinel
Xenophon
seat and aids
Salomon de la Broue
Giovanni Battista Pignatelli
Antoine de Pluvinel
Gli ordini di cavalcare
1571
L'ecuirie du S. Federic Grison gentilhomme napolitain. En laquelle est monstré l'ordre & l'art de choysir, dompter, piquer, dresser & manier les chevaux, tant pour l'usage de la guerre qu'autre commodité de l'homme. Avec figures de diverses sortes de mors de bride. Nagueres traduitte d'Italien en François
1575
Künstlicher Bericht und allerzierlichste Beschreybung des edeln, uhesten, unnd hochberümbten Ehrn Friderici Grisonis neapolitanischen hochlöblichen Adels: wie de Streitbarn Pferdt (durch welche ritterliche Tugendten mehreers Thails geübet) zum Ernst und ritterlicher Kurtzweil geschiekt und volkommen zumachen. In sechs Bücher bester Ordnung woluerstendlichem Teutsch und zierlichen Figuren (mit Anhengung etzlicher Kampfstuck) dermassen in Druck verfertiget das dergleichen in Teutschland niemals ersehen worden
1573


Alois Podhajsky
The Complete Training of Horse and Rider

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