La pazzia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albergati, Vianesio, -1532?, attributed author.

Contributor:

Persio, Ascanio.

Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553.

Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Pacanola (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Sanoni, Sebastiano (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Sanoni, Gerolamo (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

70 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

a,o- urei sohe Hosi (3) 1550 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice?], [publisher not identified], [1550??]

Notes:

Signatures: A-I⁴ (I4 blank).

Imprint suggested by Melzi.

"Stampata in India Pastinaca, per messer no[n] mi biasimate, all'uscire delle mascare, & delle pazzie carnoualesche ..."-- p.[70].

Variously ascribed to Vianesio Albergati, Ascanio Persio, Ortensio Lando & Jean Du Thier. Cf. La pazzia. A cura di Paola Malaguti. The attribution to Albergati has recently been questioned. Cf. Dizionario biografico degli italiani.

Based on the "Encomium moriae" of Erasmus.

Printed in italics.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; title in ms. on spine; all edges speckled brown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Pacanola" and ms. initials "FC" on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Sebastiano Sanoni" on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Di Gerolamo Sanoni" at foot of leaf A2r.

Cited in:

Dizionario biografico degli italiani, c I, 620

Melzi, G. Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime, II, 323

EDIT 16 CNCE 53589

OCLC:

612425829