Introduction
Pasquale Caracciolo or Pasqual Caracciolo (floruit 1566–1608) was a Neapolitan nobleman who wrote a substantial treatise on horses and horsemanship. His work La Gloria del Cavallo was first published in 1566.
La Gloria del Cavallo
La Gloria del Cavallo is a treatise of about a thousand pages,:56 dedicated almost entirely to horses and horsemanship. Caracciolo discusses the correct methods of training horses, but also investigates the complex relationships between horses and people. He attributes to horses feelings comparable to those of humans. His discussion of the character of horses uses examples from the theory of humours as expounded by the second-century Greek physician Galen of Pergamon in relation to human medicine.:56
The work also contains a chapter on the diseases of cattle.:178
Publications
- La Gloria del Cavallo (1566). Full text: 1566 edition; 1567 edition; 1608 edition