Federico Grisone

Federico Grisone
Title-page of the first edition of Gli ordini di cavalcare, 1550
Title-page of the first edition of Gli ordini di cavalcare, 1550
Occupationriding-master
LanguageItalian
NationalityNeapolitan
Genretreatise
Subjecthorsemanship
Notable worksGli ordini di cavalcare
a monochrome depiction of a man on horseback, surrounded by smaller images of the training of a horse for the battlefield
Nineteenth-century lithograph depiction of Grisone, from Charles Aubry (1798–1841), Histoire pittoresque de l'equitation ancienne & moderne, 1833

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",[1] he wrote the first book on this subject to be published in early modern Europe.

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