Beschreibung:

4°, circa 20,2 x 15 cm., 6 ff., 203 pp., title with printer s device. Modern beige cardboard Adams G 262; Gamba, Novelle 116; Papanti I 167. First edition of this erudite compilation and at the same time satirical depiction of human ignorance. Garzoni (1549-1589) first gives a definition of what ignorantia really means and where it comes from. Then he illustrates its symptoms and effects in society with a large display of anecdotes and little stories. Major sources were the Adagia of Erasmus and the Hieroglyphica of Valeriano Bolzani. One chapter is dedicated to the antagonism between the ignorant and the scholars, the last part shows how an actual deficiency like ignorance can still lead to great achievements and triumph over the learned world.

Bemerkung:

- Nice, just very slight browning, clean, simple but elegant newer Italian cardboard binding.