Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

4°, circa 23 x 17,2 cm., Engraved title, 131 pp., 1 near-full-page text engraving, large historiated engraved initials, head- and tail-piece. Contemporary vellum Melzi II, 285; Blake 425. Only edition of this curious traeatise about the nature of insanity (pazzia, follia, insanita, collera, tristezza etc.), its treatment and manifestations in different walks of life. The anonymous author ("un Filosofo Fiorentino") was a Carmelite, and lecturer in philosophy in the seminary at Arezzo. The Cipolla Tafino, to whom the work is dedicated, is Father Negro, professor of church history in the same seminary. There are several longeer chapters dedicated to food and drink in which the author analyses the effect of different kinds of vegetables, meat, fish, wine, cheese etc on mental health. Several symptoms he describes would today rather be called "depression".

Bemerkung:

- Little spotting, mostly crisp, binding a little rubbed and soiled, lower spine with small repair, else fine.