The hospital of incurable madness =
Subtitle: L'hospedale de' pazzi incurabili (1586)
By: by Tomaso Garzoni ; translated and notes by Daniela Pastina and John W. Crayton ; introduction by Monica Calabritto.
Contributors: Pastina, Daniela.; Crayton, John W.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- v. 352; Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- v. 26
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Brepols
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tempe; Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780866984003
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900
Genres: Early works to 1900.
Other titles: Hospedale de' pazzi incurabili
Work titles: Ospidale de' pazzi incurabili.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dedication to Signor Bernardino Paterno; title: Dedicatory poems by Policriti; title: Author's prologue to the spectators; title: Universal madness; title: The frenetic or delirious : Minerva; title: The melancholic and savage : Jupiter; title: The lazy and good-for-nothing : Apollo; title: The drunkards : Abstemius; title: The forgetful and demented : Charon; title: The dumb, vacant, and lifeless : Sentinius; title: The round-headed, gross, and simple-minded ox of Egypt; title: The idiots and air-headed Samian ewe; title: The jerks and giddies : Bubona; title: The clumsy and fatuous : Fatuellus; title: The perverts : Themis; title: The spiteful and tarot types : Nemesis; title: The ridiculous : Risius; title: The vainglorious : Juno; title: The fakers and jokers : Mercury; title: The lunatics and episodic crazies : Hecate; title: The love-mad : Cupid; title: The desperate : Venilia; title: The heteroclites, the odd, lame-brained, and done-for : Vulcan; title: The buffoons : Fabulanus; title: The merry, sweet, facetious, and loving : Bacchus; title: The capricious and frenzied : Tisifone; title: The violent and beastly : in need of ropes and chains : Mars; title: The over-the-top and triple-refined : Volutina; title: The obstinate, like a mule : Minos; title: The hairless : Rhadamanthus; title: The unbridled, like a horse : Hippona; title: The extravagant, extreme, and witless : Hercules; title: The diabolical : Pluto; title: On madness in women; title: Poems on madness; title: On madness / by Theodoro Angelucci; title: In praise of madness / by Guido Casoni; title: To angelucci : in praise of madness / by the author.