Details

Standardized Title:

Moriae encomium. Italian

Other Title:

Trovandomi a' discorsi di ritorno d'Italia.
Parla ella stessa la Pazzia.
Che credano e parlino pur di me gli uomini a lor grado.

Subjects:

Folly.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

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).
Foliation: Paper, 80; [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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).
Binding: Contemporary paper boards. Split at upper hinge. Holes in lower cover. A few ink smudges and stains.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Notes of Norman P. Zacour (on file in the Library) suggest late 18th-early 19th.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 104 (Ms. Italian 59).

Publications about:

This translation does not appear to have been published.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 301.

Contributor:

Bellomo, G. C.
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, dedicatee.
Pastore, Rafaello.

OCLC:

155964295

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