Frederic II and his masterpiece "De arte venandi cum avibus" is the milestone of western falconry as the austere discipline reaches its maximum artistic and cultural apex with this work. The influence of the enlightened ruler is visible in Italian culture, from Sicily to Siena; it manifests itself in various ways. The art of falconry in fact embraces many aspects of life and how one thinks about creation. The Buon Governo in Siena Between 1338 and 1340 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, precursor of renaissance art who also later developed Giotto's and Simone Martini's style, concludes his most important cycles of frescoes in the public palazzo of Siena. They represent the Allegories and the Effects of Good and Bad Government in the cities and the countryside. The frescoes highlight the already affirmed art of falconry; placed in the Hall of Nine these representations are inspired by the concept of the Aristotelian concept " common good". A ruler wearing a typical white and black senese adobe personifies the concepts of justice good government. Prosperity reigns in the frescoes depicting Siena, the land is fertile and rivers flow freely. On the other hand, the effects of bad government are rendered visible; decay and tyranny are depicted as a horned devil. Vices take the place of moral virtues and the land is rendered unlivable and totally impoverished. The Orto de'Pecci The Orto de' Pecci (the Pecci Garden)built between 1326 and 1420, is the center of falconry shows and one of the most well preserved green spaces of medieval Siena. The concept of urbanization envisioned green spaces in the city. Today, the walls enclose green areas between Porta Romana and Porta Pipsini.     San Galgano San Galgano is an unforgettable place filled with mystery and beauty famous for its sword in the rock and its cisternian abbey. It is also a reference point for falconry. In fact,the Center for Italian rapacious birds , which is the home of rare exemplars, is placed near the abbey itself .   Geraci Siculo The AICAV center of Geraci in Madonie, together with other Tuscan ones, is the second Italian center to propose shows and falconry schools. Norman ruins constructed in 1072 on a preexisting Arab structure rise west of the town. The gothic chapel of Saint Anna was added in the fourteenth century . The Chiesa Madre of the late medieval period is worthy of notice with a sixteenth century Madonna and a majestic bell-tower . Do not miss: Church of Saint Bartholomew, S. Maria della Porta, Santo Stefano and the Torre di Vedetta (XIV century).