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Sunday reading: 'Uccelliera, ovvero discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli' ['The Aviary, or Discourse on the Nature and Characteristics of Diverse Birds'], written by Giovanni Pietro Olina (1622), who served as canon at the cathedral of my hometown, Novara

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I am reading the 1684 edition, with illustrations by Vincenzo Leonardi: archive.org/details/gri_33

Federico Italiano

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Mar 29, 2020

There is also an explanation on how to make pasta for your birds in the aviary...

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Mar 29, 2020

Here are a few coloured illustrations by Vincenzo Leonardi (1590–ca. 1646)

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Mar 29, 2020

There is also an English translation of the 'Uccelliera' by Kate Clayton published in 2018 by Yale University Press under the title: 'Pasta for Nightingales. A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore' (2018).

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Mar 29, 2020

Here's the pasta recipe for the nightingale ('rusignolo'), with chickpea flour, almonds and eggs