Thomas Blundeville
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Thomas Blundeville was an English humanist writer and mathematician. He is known for work on logic, astronomy, education and horsemanship, as well as for translations from the Italian. His interests w
Blundeville's Exercises containing eight treatises including Cosmography, Astronomy, Geography and Navigation. Printed by Stansby, 1613.
Federico Grisone
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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 thi
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…on equitation published in English. It is an abridged and adapted translation, made at the suggestion of John Astley, of Gli ordini di cavalcare by Federico Grisone, and is directed towards the use of horses in war. He followed it with The fower chiefyst offices belonging to Horsemanshippe (1565–6), which included…
Title-page of the first edition of Gli ordini di cavalcare, 1550
Nineteenth-century lithograph depiction of Grisone, from Charles Aubry (1798–1841), Histoire pittoresque de l'equitation ancienne & moderne, 1833