Federico Grisone

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.

Federico Grisone
Title-page of the first edition of Gli ordini di cavalcare, 1550
Occupationriding-master
LanguageItalian
NationalityNeapolitan
Genretreatise
Subjecthorsemanship
Notable worksGli ordini di cavalcare
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