Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Elogio della Follia

Authors

• Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
• Bellomo, G. C
• Pastore, Rafaello

Other related names

• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 301
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580909
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580909

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1775 and 1799

Place

Italy

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).
   

Extent

80 leaves : 141 x 87 (127 x 73) mm. bound to 145 x 90 mm

Foliation

Paper, 80; [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper boards. Split at upper hinge. Holes in lower cover. A few ink smudges and stains.

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).

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Folly

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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