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Pasta for nightingales : a 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore / Giovanni Pietro Olina ; with illustrations from the "Paper Museum" of Cassiano dal Pozzo.

by Olina, Giovanni Pietro, active 1622.

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Yale University Press, 2018.

Birds -- Pictorial works.

9780300232882 (hc.)

Uccelliera, ovvero discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli. English.

Alternate title:

Pasta for nightingales : a seventeenth-century handbook of bird-care and folklore.

ix, 133 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Partial translation of: Uccelliera, ovvero discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli. 1622.

"Translation from the original Italian by Kate Clayton in association with First Edition Cambridge, UK. Edited by Sarah Kane"--Colophon.

Simultaneously published: London : Royal Collection Trust.

Foreword by Helen Macdonald.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Cassiano dal Pozzo, (1588-1657) now celebrated as one of the most important art patrons in Italy of the seventeenth century, commissioned a number of exquisite studies of birds as part of his famous "Paper Museum." In 1622 the lawyer and ornithologist Giovanni Pietro Olina used these drawings, which are now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, as the basis for the illustrations in his Uccelliera. Pasta for Nightingales combines Cassiano's original artwork with selections from the first modern translation of Olina's text. It includes such enchanting insights as the idea that robins suffered from dizziness and that the hoopoe overindulged in grapes until it became "dazed and halfdrunk." However, it also includes much fascinating early natural history and ornithological observation--as well as the secret recipe for pasta to keep your nightingale happy and encourage it to sing. A historic and delightful gift book, which is bound to appeal to every bird-lover."--Dust jacket.

Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657

Macdonald, Helen, 1970-

Royal Collection Trust.

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