Antonio Valli da Todi

Title page of Il Canto degl'Augelli (1601)

Antonio Valli da Todi (fl. 1600) was an Italian fowler and writer noted for the book Il Canto degl'Augelli [Italian: The song of the birds] (1601) which dealt with the capture, maintenance, and training of about sixty species of song birds. This book also included notes on methods used to trap and hunt birds including the use of decoys, nets, owls, and falcons. It also included methods to maintain birds and to stimulate them to sing. This book served as a source for several other Italian works on birds[1] including Giovanni Pietro Olina;s 1622 work Uccelliera which plagiarised considerable portions of the book and became more popular than the Valli's work. Valli's book included illustrations by Antonio Tempesta (1555 -1630), a Florentine artist. Among the achievements of Valli was the recognition and understanding of bird song and the maintenance of territory.[2] He noted that the territory of a singing nightingale was “un tiro di sasso lontano dove canta” - about a circle as wide as a long throw of a stone.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Charmantier I. (2011). "L'ornithologie entre Renaissance et Lumières : le Traitté general des oyseaux de Jean B. Faultrier (1660)" (PDF). Anthropozoologica. 46 (1): 7–25.
  2. ↑ Baldaccini, N.E. (2017). "Antonio Valli ovvero "date a Cesare ciò che è di Cesare"" (PDF). Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem., Serie B. 124: 5–8. doi:10.2424/ASTSN.M.2017.01.
  3. ↑ Birkhead, T. R (2013). "Nicolas Venette's Traité du rossignol(1697) and the discovery of migratory restlessness". Archives of Natural History. 40: 125–138. doi:10.3366/anh.2013.0142.
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