CULINARY DISCUSSION, HOW TO STAY HEALTHY

[Compagnia della Lesina:] La sferza dei villani. Ragionamento del Pensabene, sustituto nella cura de i gia nominati nouitij lesinanti, sopra le malatie de' contadini. In Vicenza, per li heredi di Perin libraro. Con licentia de’ Superiori. 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 alled ‘Nuovi aggiuntoni della Lesina’. There are two poems at end on how to stay healthy, the second written in the Bergamo dialect.

Details

Pamphlet, 13.3 cms. x 7.3 cms., in duodecimo, pp. 21 [3]. Woodcut to title-page of a sleeved forearm and hand holding a scourge. Light browning, foxing and spotting, disbound and rebound in recent pink wrappers.

SBN: IT\ICCU\VIAE\003642. For the collection, see IT\ICCU\UTOE\675133; Bruni and Evans, Italian 17th-century books in Cambridge libraries (Florence 1997), 2921.