Snelle Levering The Hospital of Incurable Madness – Daniela Pastina

Dedication to Signor Bernardino Paterno — Dedicatory poems by Policriti — Author’s prologue to the spectators — Universal madness — The frenetic or delirious : Minerva — The melancholic and savage : Jupiter — The lazy and good-for-nothing : Apollo — The drunkards : Abstemius — The forgetful and demented : Charon — The dumb, vacant, and lifeless : Sentinius — The round-headed, gross, and simple-minded ox of Egypt — The idiots and air-headed Samian ewe — The jerks and giddies : Bubona — The clums…