Note 671 — Chapter II · NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Gage, Carteggio, i. p. 422, year 1291. The Visconti used trained leopards for hunting hares, which were started by little dogs. See v. Kobel, Wildanger, p. 247, where later instances of hunting with leopards are mentioned.