Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, c1559.
Only Edition. Bolognese poet Pierluigi Tarinti's first-person verse narrative, in traditional Dantean terza rima, recounts the author's horseback journey from Bologna to Scandiano (via Modena) one fine day "in the month which comes after August." Tarinti, who addresses his  brother, plans a leisurely trip—partly because he.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....
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Modena: 1774.
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises essentially the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially.....