Volpino Italino

COUNTRY: Italy
WEIGHT: Less than 10 pounds
HEIGHT: 11-12 inches
COAT: Long, thick spitz coat
COLOR: Pure white or sable (rare)
OTHER NAMES: Florentine Spitz, Cane de Quirinale
GROUP: Northern


Although Pliny in his important work “Naturalis History” speaks of “canis avuarius”, that can come near to the Italian Braco, the oldest testimony and certain he offers great Tuscan painter Ambroggio Lorenzeti in the fresh of the allegory of the “Good and bad government”, realised between 1338 and 1340, in the Room of the Nine in the City council of Siena. Between the diverse images it presents/displays to a dog with axes skull-facia clearly divergent them, very similar to the Italian dog of present sample.

Therefore, origins old, but also he can to say that of noble lineage if he thinks that even the kings of France had in their piamonteses bracos perreras - with the white and orange layer - and that the Saboya, since the end of 1300, received like gift, on the part of their subjects. four dogs of Brazi race by each valley on which they had to be able and jurisdición.