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ture during the preparation of this Bibliotheca Accipitraria, as 

 well as for the figure of a French falconer in the time of 

 Louis XV., which will be found amongst the illustrations. 



Spanish. — As a curiosity, Los Paramientos de la Caza 

 (224), attributed to Sancho VI. (el Sabio), is worth reading, 

 although Don Jose Gutierrez de la Vega (226) doubts whether 

 the MS. is of the age assigned to it (p. xcvii). But the two 

 most celebrated books in Spanish upon this subject are those 

 by the Prince Don Juan Manuel (226) and the Chancellor Pero 

 Lopez de Ayala (228). Nor should we omit to notice the now 

 scarce work of Martinez de Espinar (245). Those who are not 

 familiar with the Spanish literature of the chase will probably 

 be surprised at the number of works (38) now catalogued, 

 especially as only seven are enumerated by Schlegel. But of 

 these thirty-eight, it must be confessed that several are of but 

 slight importance, while a few are merely translations from the 

 Latin and French. 



Italian. — The best known, and perhaps on the whole the 

 most useful, treatises in Italian are those of Carcano (267) 

 and Federico Georgi (268) ; but the following may also be 

 recommended for reasons which appear in the notes following 

 the titles — namely, Codroipo (274), Raimondi (277), Olina 

 (278), and Tuano, translated from the Latin by Bergantini 

 (284). It was to the works of Carcano and Georgi that our 

 English Turbervile was so much indebted in the preparation of 

 his " Booke of Faulconrie," 1575-1611 (14, 15). 



Those who desire a deeper acquaintance with the Italian 

 literature of the subject will do well to look into the works 

 edited by Professors Spezi (294), Ceruti (295), Zambrini 

 (296), and Ferraro (297). 



Latin. — With the exception of the Hieracosophion of 

 Thuanus, or, to give him his real name, De Thou (306), 

 already mentioned in connection with the Italian translation 

 of his poem, it will suffice to mention a single work in Latin 

 as worth perusal at the present day, and this is a most im- 

 portant one — namely, the work of the Emperor Frederick II., 

 De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (308). To master this is to 

 acquire a liberal education in the art of Hawking. It is ex- 



