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This article analyses from a cross-cultural view a Chinese book of the seventeenth century, Jincheng yinglun (Treatise on Falcons), written by Ludovico Buglio, an Italian Jesuit who did a partial translation of liber sextus of Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Ornithologiae (De Falconibus in Genere), published in Bologna in various editions from 1596 to 1598.

The article describe in details the Treatise of falconry written in Chinese by Ludovico Buglio in 17th century. The book is an interesting example of cross-cultural communication and cultural translation. The author describe the genesis of the book, its main features and its content.