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Elogio d[ella] Follia.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
- Standardized Title:
- Moriae encomium. Italian
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Folly.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Accessioned, 1959.
- Physical Description:
- 80 leaves : paper ; 141 x 87 (127 x 73) mm bound to 145 x 90 mm
- Other Title:
- Trovandomi a' discorsi di ritorno d'Italia.
- Parla ella stessa la Pazzia.
- Che credano e parlino pur di me gli uomini a lor grado.
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1775 and 1799]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Erasmus's In praise of folly, in an Italian translation by Rafaello Pastore. With annotations by the translator. Begins with a dedicatory preface to Sir Thomas More.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from spine label.
- Heading and incipit of dedicatory preface: Erasmo al suo Tom Moro S. Trovandomi a' discorsi di ritorno d'Italia ... (f. 2r).
- Heading and incipit of text: Parla ella stessa la Pazzia. Che credano e parlino pur di me gli uomini a lor grado ... (f. 4v).
- Foliation: Paper, 80; [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of the translator, Rafaello Pastore. Inscription and seal of Gio. Can. Bellomo attesting to this fact: Questo è MS. Originale dell'Autore Rafaello Pastore (f. 79r).
- Binding: Contemporary paper boards. Split at upper hinge. Holes in lower cover. A few ink smudges and stains.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the late 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Notes of Norman P. Zacour (on file in the Library) suggest late 18th-early 19th.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 104 (Ms. Italian 59).
- Publications about:
- This translation does not appear to have been published.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 301.
- OCLC:
- 155964295
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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