Pasquale Caracciolo

Pasquale Caracciolo
Title page of the 1608 edition of La Gloria del Cavallo
Born	Naples
Nationality	Neapolitan
Other names	Pasqual Caracciolo
Years active	1566–1608
Known for	La Gloria del Cavallo, 1566

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 is a treatise of about a thousand pages, 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.

The work also contains a chapter on the diseases of cattle.