148 BOOKS ON FALCONR V. 



274. CODROIPO (Francesco). Dialogo de la 

 Caccia de' Falconi, Astori, e Sparvieri di Francesco 

 Codroipo, gentilhuomo Udinese. Al serenissimo Don 

 Ferdinando Arciduca d' Austria etc. Con licenza de 

 Superiori. [Vignette.] In Udine, appresso Giovan- 

 battista Natolini. 1600. sm. 4to. 



Printed throughout in italic. Title, Dedication, and Commen- 

 datory Verses, i.-xiv. ; pp. 1-90; Tavola, i.-v. 



Edizione seconda, Udine, per Pietro Lorio, 1614, 8vo. 



In this small quarto of less than a hundred pages, the author, 

 by way of dialogue, relates a series of conversations which he 

 says took place between his father, il Cavaliere Codroipo, and an 

 accomplished falconer with whom he used to stay on a visit, 

 Signor Giacomo Savorgnano, the owner of the castles of Ariis 

 and Isemico, in the district of Friuli. He states that, being 

 present at their discourses when out hawking, and being much 

 struck with all he heard, he committed it to memory, and on his 

 return to the house made a note of it, putting into the mouths 

 of the speakers (who are distinguished as " Sig. Giacomo " and 

 *' Cavaliere") the very words which, so far as he could remember, 

 each of them uttered. It is pleasant reading, reminding one of 

 D'Arcussia's Conference des Fauconniers {^o. 154), though less 

 spirited and less exact, because related second-hand. 



" Posso dire con veritk " (says Sig. Giacomo) " che il volo de' 

 falconi a riviera e cosa mavigliosa e stupenda : poiche si vede 

 un animale il piu altiero d' animo, ed inimico de 1' huomo ch' altro 

 qual si voglia, con la sola patienza ed industria non solo fatto 

 amico, ma quasi intendente di tutte le voglie di chi lo regge " 

 (p. 16). 



He describes (pp. 18-19) a flight at a heron with a Peregrine. 

 The greater portion of the work is occupied with a discussion 

 on the different kinds of falcons and their peculiarities, on Gos- 

 hawks and Sparrow-hawks, their ailments, and the remedies 

 recommended for them. 



275. IMPERIALI (Giovanni Vincenzio, Geno- 



vese). Lo Stato Rustico. Poema in verso sciolto 



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