How did Xenophon’s book “Art équestre” come down to us? What was its influence on the writers who have dealt with this subject, and particularly on the Renaissance squires, most of them being Italian? This is probably the most interesting part for us, bibliophiles, historians, collectors and others curious about the equestrian theme, of the […]
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Colloquium on Xenophon, December 2019
COLLOQUIUM JENOFONTE, Paris December 4 (9.30) «Xenophon’s Treatise on Equestrian Art: Otherness or Modernity? » The World Horse Library (University-MRSH of Caen) will present on December 4 in Paris, a colloquium on the work of Xenophon, studied and commented on by Alexandre Blaineau at based on the work he published with Actes Sud in 2011: […]
Xenophon first of all, by and for Mario Gennero
Mario Gennero, was born in the Turin countryside «on the farm we had draft horses and mules» and he still lives in the Turin suburb of Settino. At seventy-two years old, he is still passionate about literature and books. He is a language teacher, he speaks French, Portuguese and Spanish, but he frowns at the […]
The Integral of Xenophon by Alexandre Blaineau
The Integral of Xenophon by Alexandre Blaineau or… the “foundation”. …On the fingers of one hand (gentle!), one must remember his teaching (Xenophon’s) on the importance of gentleness in the relationship with the horse, a typically Greek sweetness in the sense that it reflects a certain form of being, and that could be summed up […]