Parise's Method is Rejected

As mentioned in my previous article, on the 11th June 1889 Lo Sport Illustrato reported on the verdict of a commission headed by the Duke of Aosta, Prince Amedeo I, who was at the time Inspector General of the Cavalry. Here is the brief article in question:

"Cav. Masaniello Parise, winner of the competition announced by the Ministry of War in 1882 and Director of Scuola Magistrale Militare in Rome, presented as a practical application of his treatise an instruction in the handling of the sabre for the cavalry.
The Commission presided over by HRH the Duke of Aosta, Inspector General of the Cavalry, has voted against Cav. Parise's instruction, declaring itself in favour of keeping that which is in force, which is informed by Radaellian principles.
We will now see how the maestri of the cavalry and artillery regiments will act, given that at the Scuola Magistrale in Rome they officially teach a sabre system which cannot be implemented in practice in the army."

Thus we have yet more evidence that Radaelli's method was not only still in force in the cavalry in 1889, five years after Parise's sabre method became regulation, but that it was explicitly endorsed by Prince Amedeo, the Inspector General of the Cavalry.

As we will see in a future article, however, Parise did not give up on trying to implement his sabre method in the cavalry despite the fact that his implementations had been rejected multiple times.