The Hospital of Incurable Madness - Daniela Pastina
L’Hospedale de’ Pazzi Incurabili (1586), by Tomaso Garzoni
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Dedication to Signor Bernardino Paterno -- Dedicatory poems by Policriti -- Author's prologue to the spectators -- Universal madness -- The frenetic or delirious : Minerva -- The melancholic and savage : Jupiter -- The lazy and good-for-nothing : Apollo -- The drunkards : Abstemius -- The forgetful and demented : Charon -- The dumb, vacant, and lifeless : Sentinius -- The round-headed, gross, and simple-minded ox of Egypt -- The idiots and air-headed Samian ewe -- The jerks and giddies : Bubona -- The clumsy and fatuous : Fatuellus -- The perverts : Themis -- The spiteful and tarot types : Nemesis -- The ridiculous : Risius -- The vainglorious : Juno -- The fakers and jokers : Mercury -- The lunatics and episodic crazies : Hecate -- The love-mad : Cupid -- The desperate : Venilia -- The heteroclites, the odd, lame-brained, and done-for : Vulcan -- The buffoons : Fabulanus -- The merry, sweet, facetious, and loving : Bacchus -- The capricious and frenzied : Tisifone -- The violent and beastly : in need of rope...
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This translation of Garzoni's The Hospital of Incurable Madness provides a fascinating addition to our understanding of representations of mental illness in the Middle Ages. This translation of Tomaso Garzoni's Renaissance 'best-seller' provides a rich and revealing window on sixteenth-century views of madness and foolishness, and social deviance. Garzoni's encyclopedic work is perhaps the most important contribution of the last half of the century to the 'fools' genre to which Erasmus' Praise of Folly and...
