ANIMAL LIFE IN ITALIAN PAINTING 



known in Europe for a long period. Matthew Paris 

 records (year 1255) the arrival of one in England as 

 a present from Louis IX. of France to Henry III., and 

 soon afterwards a representation of it was carved on a 

 misericord of the new choir of Exeter Cathedral. 



Salimbene says: "In that year (1235) the Lord 

 Emperor Frederick sent an elephant into Lombardy, 

 with several dromedaries and camels, and with many 

 leopards, and with many gerfalcons and hawks, and 

 passed through Parma, as I saw with my own eyes ; 

 and they stopped at Cremona." ^ 



King Emanuel of Portugal presented to Pope Leo X. 

 an elephant, as well as a rhinoceros. The elephant was 

 the popular feature in a state procession, in which 

 Tristan D'Acunha was the principal object of human 

 interest. Amnone, for this was the elephant's name, 

 seems to have behaved very well ; it genuflected to 

 the Pope, and when given a drink out of a bucket, 

 delighted him by lifting up its trunk and squirting 

 water over the spectators. Raphael painted its portrait 

 for the Pope.^ 



As in the case of the giraffe, elephants had been 



1 Chronica fratris Salimbene dc Adam, Monumenta Germanise His- 

 torica (Hanover, 1905), torn. xxxii.,pars. i, pp. 92-3. 



This elephant had been given to Frederick by the Sultan in 1228. See 

 R. T. Holbrook, Da7ite and the Animal Kingdom, 1902, p. 203. 



' See Julia Cartwright, Baldassare Castiglione, 1908, vol. i. p. 385. 



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