PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"Federico Grisone was a Neapolitan nobleman and one of the first masters of dressage 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. Grisone started a riding academy in Naples in 1532, and in 1550 published the influential Gli ordini di cavalcare, ""The Rules of Riding"", one of the first works on horsemanship since the time of Xenophon. 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, ""The arte of ryding and breakinge greate horses,"" an abridged and adapted translation made by Thomas Blundeville at the suggestion of John Astley and published with plates from the original in 1560, is the earliest book in English on equitation. Previously published as ISBN: 9780866985055 Elizabeth MacKenzie Tobey received her Bachelor's of Arts in Art History from Smith College in 1993 and her Master's and Doctoral degrees in Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland in 1997 and 2005 respectively. Dr. Tobey has incorporated a lifelong interest in horses into her scholarship on equestrian culture in early modern Italy and has worked at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, Virginia and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Currently she is working for the University System of Maryland on the Gates/Ithaka Project, and pursuing a Masters in Library Science at the University of Maryland. This work was previously published with the isbn: 9780866985055 Federica Brunori Deigan was born and raised in Italy, where she received a ""laurea"" in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Rome La sapienza and a professional diploma from the School for Interpreters of Rome. She obtained her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at Hopkins, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Italian. Her research interests are the Italian national identity and the history and literature of the 19th century and 20th century."
"""This careful translation according to scientific standards makes a key treatise of equestrian art accessible again. Grisone as a master of equitation has not received the attention he deserves, which has been due to a lack of good translations of his texts. This book will most certainly renew the fame of Grisone."" verified purchase."
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