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Camillo Tarello (ca. 1513 - 1573) was an Venetian agronomist, known as author of ''Ricordo d'agricoltura di M. Camillo Tarello'',〔Camillo Tarello. ''(Ricordo d'agricoltura di M. Camillo Tarello )'' 1567/1773 ((google books ))〕 and for his patent of a new system in agriculture〔''Popular Science'', Nov. 1908, p. 407〕 based on crop rotation granted by the Venetian Senate in 1566.〔Luca Molà (2003) ''The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice.''〕 == Life and work == Camillo Tarello, a native of Lonato del Garda, in the Venetian territories, concerned to see the neglected and dreadful mismanaged state of husbandry, in his country wrote his small, but highly valuable treatise of Agriculture, and presented it to the Senate of Venice under the title of ''Ricordo es Agricultura''. The Senate, in justice to the excellency of this work and the patriotic intentions of its author, granted him, on the 29th of September 1566, not only the sole right of vending his book, but also ordered at the fame time that all such as adopted his new method of husbandry, should pay to him, and afterwards to his descendants, four marchetti (about three halfpence of the 18th century) for every acre of corn land, and two marchetti for every acre of other land, planted according to his direction.〔''The Complete Farmer Or a General Dictionary of Husbandry.'' 4th ed. London, T. Longman 1793. p. PLO〕 Tarello and another agronomist from Brescia, Agostino Gallo, promoted the use of clover as a fodder.〔Thorkild Kj'rgaard (2006) ''The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation.'' p. 68〕 In ''Ricordo d'agricoltura'' he explained: :''Clover is an excellent fodder, not just as Pliny says, but as experience shows. Its roots benefit the soil by making it rich no less than grass benefits animals by nourishing them. That is why people from Brescia sow clover where they later intend to grow flax, which exhausts the soil a great deal... If one wishes to sow this crop, one should initially buy the seed in Brescia or some other place where it is to be found.〔Translation in Thorkild Kj'rgaard (2006, p. 68)〕 In the antiquity clover had been of secondary importance as manner. Its domestication had been described by Albertus Magnus in ''De vegitabilibus'', around 1270, but the campaign of Gallo and Tarello around 1550 made it popular.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camillo Tarello」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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