Garzoni, Tomaso. The hospital of incurable madness = L'hospedale de' pazzi incurabili (1586)

Folger bibliographic ID: 232219
Folger call number: RC340 .G3213 2009
Folger holdings ID: 280666
Accession Number: 222911

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index

Contents

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 ropes and chains : Mars -- The over-the-top and triple-refined : Volutina -- The obstinate, like a mule : Minos -- The hairless : Rhadamanthus -- The unbridled, like a horse : Hippona -- The extravagant, extreme, and witless : Hercules -- The diabolical : Pluto -- On madness in women -- Poems on madness -- On madness / by Theodoro Angelucci -- In praise of madness / by Guido Casoni -- To angelucci : in praise of madness / by the author

Uniform title: Ospidale de' pazzi incurabili. English
Extended title: The hospital of incurable madness = L'hospedale de' pazzi incurabili (1586) / by Tomaso Garzoni ; translated and notes by Daniela Pastina and John W. Crayton ; introduction by Monica Calabritto
Alternate titles: Hospedale de' pazzi incurabili, L'hospedale de' pazzi incurabili (1586)

Psychiatry

author: Garzoni, Tomaso, 1549?-1589
associated with: Pastina, Daniela
associated with: Crayton, John W