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.

Ospidale de' pazzi incurabili. English

Hospedale de' pazzi incurabili

L'hospedale de' pazzi incurabili (1586)

Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Turnhout, Belgium : In collaboration with Brepols, 2009.

viii, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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-heads : 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 or episodic crazies : Hecate -- The love-mad : Cupid -- The desperate : Venilia -- The heteroclites, the odd, lame-brained, and the 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 : those-deserving-of-the-gallows-a-thousand-times-over : Pluto -- On madness in women -- Thee poems on madness.