TRAICTfi NOUVEA.U DE L’AGBICULTURE 
Traicte nouveau de l*agriculture & maniere de planter, 
arracher, labourer, semer & emonder les arbres sauvages, 
bois hault & bois taillis, en quel lieu, quel temps & com¬ 
ment: le plaisir & coramodite qu’on en revolt, pour l*aor- 
nement [sic} & beault^ [sic] des inaisons de plaisence. 
Paris, Gilles Corrozet, 1551. [109] p. (Sigs. A - G) 
17.5 cm. (Arn. Arb.) 
Arn. Arb. Cat. credits this to Pierre Belon, 
probably because the Brit. Mus. Cat. inserts in 
the title, in brackets, ”By P. Belon,” altho it 
makes no reference to it under his name. It is 
not listed under Belon in Cat. Bib. Nat. Paris, 
nor is it mentioned in any of the biographical 
notices of him that have been seen. Beside the 
fact that it appeared during the lifetime of Be¬ 
lon, there is another argument in favor of his 
authorship: it was published by Gilles Corrozet, 
who brought out several works by Belon, notably 
his "Observations” in 1553. On the other hand, 
there is some possibility that Corrozet himself 
might have written it, for an account of him in 
Biographic Ihiiverselle states that he published 
many translations from the Latin &c. (MEtY) 
Savastano, in Ann. R. Staz. Sper. Agrumic. e 
Fruttio. Acireale, 6:114-115 (1922), states that 
this tract has been attributed by bibliophiles 
to Gorgole de Come (or Gregorio dei Corno), but 
that it differs greatly in style from authentic 
work of de Come and is actually a compilation 
from Columella, very poorly done. On the other 
hand, Dupetit-Thouars, in a sketch of Brossard 
in Michaud, Biog. Univ., Nouv. ed., 5:611-612, 
compares the tract of de Come very unfavorably 
with the anonymous "Traicte nouveau de 1’agri¬ 
culture.” While he acknowledges that the lat¬ 
ter is taken from old Latin agricultural writ¬ 
ings, he considers it of value because it has 
been well put together. He regards it as the 
first French treatise on the management of for¬ 
ests. (MFW) 
