140 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



A flight at the partridge with a trained Sparrow-hawk is thus 

 described : — 



*' Ecco Guglielmo a te una ne viene, 

 Cava il cappello, et alzerai la mano; 

 Non istar pili Guglielmo, ecco a te bene ; 

 Guglielmo getta, e grida, ahi villano ! 

 Segue la starna, e drieto ben le tiene 

 Quello sparviere, e in tempo momentano 

 Dette in aria forse cento braccia j 

 Poi cadde in terra, e gik la pela, e straccia. 



Preseli il geto, e per quel 1' ha tenuto j 

 Dalli il capo, e' 1 cervello, e non li pesa ; 

 Sgermillo, e 1' unghia e' 1 becco gli havea netto ; 

 Poi rimisse il cappello, e torna a getto." 



The scene depicted was most probably at Poggio-Cajano 

 (described op. cit. vol. ii. pp. 134-135), about ten miles from 

 Florence, where Lorenzo frequently enjoyed the diversions of 

 hunting and hawking, the latter of which he is said to have pre- 

 ferred. This statement is made on the authority of his con- 

 temporary and friend Niccolo Valori, a Florentine, who wrote his 

 Life in Latin, which was not printed until 1749, though an Italian 

 translation of it appeared in 1560. Lorenzo died in 1492. 



In the description of the village of Cajano by another con- 

 temporary, Michaelo Verini, it is remarked that the neighbour- 

 hood abounded with quails and other birds, particularly water- 

 fowl ; and that Lorenzo stocked his woods with pheasants and 

 with peacocks, which he procured from Sicily. 



266. AGOGO MAGO. Opera nobilissima com- 



posta per lo excelente maistro Agogo Mago Re de 



tute le passion vien a Falconi, Astori, e Sparaveri. 



Milano. 15 17. sm. 4to. 



Title in black-letter, with woodcut of hawks on a perch, two 

 falconers, one standing, the other seated, and a hound lying 

 beneath the perch. This very scarce tract is printed at the end 

 of a treatise (fols. 28 verso-Z2) on the Horse, entitled " Libro 

 de la natura di Cavalli & el modo di rilevarli : medicarli : & 



