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Garzoni, Tomaso (1549-1589) L'Hospidale de Pazzi Incurabili.
Venice: Appresso Roberto Meietti, 1601.
Quarto, woodcut printer's device to title page, bound in later half parchment; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
"Garzoni's Renaissance best-seller provides a rich and revealing window on 16th 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's Praise of Folly and Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools also belong. Garzoni provides a spoof of academic writing on madness, with extensive 'reviews of the medical literature' on certain types of madness. A final, intriguing section on the varieties of madness to be found in Garzoni's female patients reveals much about late-Renaissance attitudes towards women." (Quoted from the introduction to an English translation of Garzoni's work, The Hospital of Incurable Madness, translation and notes by Daniela Pastina & John W. Crayton, introduction by Monica Calabritto, Brepols, 2010.)
