CULINARY DISCUSSION, SARTORIAL CONTENT

[Compagnia della Lesina:] Il rampino seruitore della signora Lesina, auisi diuersi venuti nuouamente da tutte le parti del mondo. Raccolti di Filocerdo della casata de gli Sparmiatiui. Alla regolatissima Academia, e Compagnia dell'vna, e dell'altra prouincia della Lesina Maggiore, e Minore. Opera diletteuole, la quale insegna a i marcanti, & a gli artesani, & a chi vorra imparare auanzare la meta della spesa. In Vicenza, per gli heredi di Perin libraro 1602.

One of 21 humorous pamphlets produced between the years 1602 and 1605 by the press of the heirs of Perin in Vicenza, relating to the “Compagnia della Lesina”, a group of greedy eaters who were the subject of a bestselling burlesque poem, first published - also by the heirs of Perin - in 1589. The pamphlets were sold probably both individually, and as a collection called ‘Nuovi aggiontoni della Lesina’. Their interest includes culinary discussion. The present also has sartorial content, and (sig A6 verso) brief discussion of the Persian physicians Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Razi (Rhases).

Details

Pamphlet, 13.4 cms. x 7.3 cms., in duodecimo, pp. [24]. Woodcut of grappling hook to title-page. Light browning, foxing and spotting, disbound and rebound in recent pink paper wrappers. Some contemporary or early notation to top margin.

SBN: IT\ICCU\VIAE\003652. For the collection, see IT\ICCU\UTOE\675133; Bruni and Evans, Italian 17th-century books in Cambridge libraries (Florence 1997), 2921.