Les loua[n]ges de la folie
Subtitle: traicté fort plaisant en forme de paradoxe
By: traduict d'Italien en Francois par feu Messire Iehan du Thier, cheualier, conseiller du roy, & secretaire d'estat & des finances dudict seigneur
Contributors: Persio, Ascanio; Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553; Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555
Publisher: Pour Hertman Barbé marcha[n]t demeurant à Paris rue S. Iean de Beauuais.
Published: 1566
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: frm
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Indians of the South America; Folly; Indians of the North America
Other titles: Louanges de la folie.
Work titles: Pazzia. French
Notes: Attributed to Ortensio Lando in the Biblioteca universale antica e moderna, published in Venice from 1822-1831.

Attributed to Ascanio Persio by Brunet.

Attributed to Vianesio Albergati in the Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori Italiani / by G. Melzi. New York,1960, v. 2, p. 323.

Attributed to Claudio Tolomei in La piazza / by Paola Malaguti in her article from Nuovo Rinascimento published in 2009.

A translation: La pazzia, first printed possibly in Bologna in 1540.

Includes comparison of New World natives with citizens of Plato's Republic on leaf C6 verso.

Signatures: A-F⁸ (A1, F8 versos blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initials.

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de lamateur de livres (5ěd.), IV: p. 459n.

Purchase; 1981; 82-76.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century brown paper covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund.