The Newest Book on Federico Caprilli

[Jackie_Cochran]

A few weeks ago I was looking on Amazon to see if there were any Forward Seat book that I had missed getting.

There was nothing new under Forward Seat, but then I put in a search for Federico Caprilli (the inventor of the Forward Seat.)

There was a new, new, new book!!! Unfortunately for me it is in Italian. I got it anyway, I do have an Italian-English dictionary somewhere in the house.

It has photographs that I have never seen before, including ones of Caprilli jumping.

Is there a published dictionary, Italian to English (and the other way if possible) that covers Italian words used for Horsemanship and Riding? Is there a web site that translates equestrian words from Italian to English? If not is there an equestrian Italian-Spanish dictionary?

I NEED one right now. Otherwise I will slowly muddle through, depending on the fact that Spanish, another Romance language, is my second language and using my dictionary. It has been decades since I spoke or read stuff in Spanish but it still lingers in my mind and memory.

I WILL muddle through. My small comfort is that I will not have to learn a new alphabet too.

At least I have something to distract my mind after yesterday’s election.

The book is “Lo Stile Caprilli” by Tiziano Bedonni.

[sascha]

If you Google your butt off (and I’m sorry for both you and myself, I did not save the link) there is somewhere on the internet a very comprehensive dictionary of equestrian terms that covers many languages.

[BrownDerby]

I wonder if @Bethe_Mounce is still about? She rode in Italy as a youth, I believe.

[Jackie_Cochran]

It looks right now that my best alternative is the “International Horseman’s Dictionary” by Zdzislav Baranowski, the 1999 edition published by J. A. Allen. It covers equestrian terms in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

My son has kindly ordered me a 600 page Italian-English/English-Italian dictionary.

I want dictionaries that are BOOKS because I do not seem to comprehend quite as well reading off the computer screen. My brain and eyes prefer reading a printed page, not a screen. Plus looking stuff up in a book takes me a LOT less time than trying to get the same information on-line, therefore I do not get as tired studying stuff.

My other son still has a vacant space on his Duo Lingo (sp?) program that he will set up for me to learn Italian next Monday.

I have been paging through the book, mostly looking at the pictures. From some of the pictures it looks like the riders do not “place” their horses to meet the jump at the best take-off point, several pictures look like the horse got way too close to the jump (probably 3.5’-4’ or so) and there are several other pictures of the horse taking off way too early. In all the pictures the rider keeps the Forward Seat, many of the pictures show VERY light contact, and it does not look like the riders were that concerned of making a “pretty picture”.

Included in the pictures is a good one of our (USA) Kathy Kusner jumping the horse Aberali over a SEVEN FOOT two inch wall in a competition in Aachen, Germany, using a old fashioned jumping cavesson bridle (a variety of the side-pull.)

Even without an Italian-English dictionary I am enjoying my new horse book!

[endlessclimb]

Google translate will now translate text off of the camera lens.

If you have a smart phone, download Google Translate, see how it does.

[endlessclimb]

Here’s a link on how to do it:

Translate using Smartphone Camera, No Typing (Google Translate, Android)

[Jackie_Cochran]

Thank you!

My youngest son is coming over on Monday. He can set me up easily and show me how to do it.

I am at the Australophithecus level of operating computers, I NEED a more “modern” human to help me set stuff up.

[Paisley_Pony]

I understand completely! My son is a programmer-in-training and the go-to in our entire family for tech questions. It’s not that I can’t solve many of these questions myself, but because I didn’t grow up with the tech like the younger generation ( my computer science experience began and ended with a high school course using the Apple IIE), it takes me a lot more time and effort than it does them - time and effort that usually needs to be spent solving other problems. Let us know how the translating goes! The book looks like it will be an interesting read.

[Jackie_Cochran]

My “closed mindset” is due to my brain damage from my over 50 year old case of Multiple Sclerosis which includes big problems with memory, really big problems with memory.

The reason I have fewer difficulties about learning things about horses is that I have been actively learning, reading, riding and training horses and thinking about horses constantly for over 50 years. My MS was not anywhere as bad when I began riding and learning about horses many decades ago, and if I have a knowledge base of a subject it is much easier for me to learn something new in a field of study.

If I had learned how to do computers as a child I would not have these problems, but alas I did not get to “play” with a computer until I got my first 286 computer around 1990 when I was around 40.

At least horses can think some and learn to figure me out. Computers cannot learn to think, learn to figure out what I mean, and teach me like the horses can. The horses are really quick to correct me when I do wrong. When I learn to do it right horses become really easy to ride and control for me as long as I listen to the horse (barring accidents etc., because–horses.)