Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: Keywords: Birds, Cinegetics literature, Falconry, Hunting.

This article has the objective of showing the Hunting art of Diogo Fernandes Ferreira, and also to send some clues and questions to future investigations about the hunting activity with the use of poultry. We also want to emphasize the importance of hunting in the Portuguese modern society, mainly in a certain moment, in which this activity was “sleeping”. This is a work of Portuguese literature about hunting, written by a royal falconer in the first quarter of the XVII century.