I'RKl- ACE. 



I have in vain examined the four books of " Natalis Comes Natal. Comosdc 



Venatioiie Akli 



de Venatione" for more than the name of the canis Celticus— fii.Venet. i55i. 

 probably to be interpreted of the war-dog of Gaul, rather than 

 the Vertragus. 



The Cvneireticon of Peter Angelio, commonly called, from Petri Angelii 



•' ° ^ liarga-i Poenia- 



his Tuscan birth-place, Bar^seus, is said to have been the ta omnia. Flo- 



r ' o ' rent. 15G8. 



labour of twenty years. It is a splendid specimen of modern 

 Latinity, in beautiful Virgilian hexameters, to which the lite- 

 rary courser will award their merited meed of praise. The 

 most approved shape of the ** canis cursor " is correctly por- 

 trayed, with a reference to the fabulous tale of the Ovidian 

 Lselaps. Nor has the poet disdained to enter on the minute 

 and necessary details of breeding, and kenneling the pack. 

 Indeed the whole of his fifth book is devoted to the " blanda 

 canum soboles ; " and the reader will find incorporated in the 

 instructions therein given, nearly all the arcana of the Greek 

 and Latin Cynegetica, excepting these of Arrian's Manual, 

 which do not appear to have been known to the poet of Barga. 

 He employs the greyhound in coursing the fox, wolf, deer, and 

 goat ; but gives no description of hare-coursing in any of the 

 six books of his Cynegeticon ; nor in the eclogues entitled 

 " Venatoria," forming part of the fifth book of his " Carmina." 

 Had the manuscript of Arrian's Cynegeticus been known to 

 him, he would, doubtless, have entered as fully into hare- 

 coursing, as he has into every other variety of chase. 



Of Conrad Heresbach's compendium of fishing, fowlino-, C. HeresUndiii 



Compendium 



and hunting, ^ attached to his larger work '' de Re Rustica," I Thercmic-.i' uni- 



versae. 



1. Should the reader meet with any extracts from the Compendium in the suhse- 

 quent annotation.s, they are to be received on ilie auiliority of Conrad Gesner, from 

 wliose " Historia QiiadrupeJum " they are selected. The same learned wurk lias 



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