mwmmnfi%wmwmfmmfftiwmwi 



ON THE BEIDLING OF HORSES AM) 

 THE USE OF THE CURB -BIT. 



In the XVI. Century first Cesare Fiaschi a 

 nobleman of Ferrara (1539) and after him Pirr' An- 

 tonio Ferrari a nobleman of Naples (1598) Avrote 

 on the Bridling of horses. Fra Ciovanni Paolo 

 d' Aqnino, knight of St. John of Jerusalem (Udine 

 1636) mentions the latter and not the former pro- 

 bably because he was, like himself, a native of the 

 Kingdom of Naples. The Bitter von Weyrother, 

 head of the austrian military riding school (Vienna 

 1810), said what was said by Fiaschi before him, 

 but Weyrother employed modern expressions and 

 invented the measuring curb-bit. 



Fiaschi said moreover that when adapting the 

 bit to a horse besides the shape of his mouth, 



