There was the time of emptiness ... with de'fronzoli literary triumph.
SECURITIES de 'BOOKS
In 1932 came printed in a collection of Turin volumes, apparently harmless, for work of this Carlo Mascaretti the \u0026lt;dottore bibliotecario> (1855 - 1928, Americo Scarlatti anagram pseudonym) entitled: ET HIC ET AB AB HOC - Curiosity bibliographic , 12 volumes in a collection that has the subtitle "Oddities, quirks, jokes and puns literary" . (At the moment I have only vol. XI).
true lover of books and reading, the Mascaretti dives in search of stories that amaze, without getting caught by the need to exaggerate, but remained more faithful to the sources of things that 'hearsay'.
legend is spontaneously imagine how a thoughtful man aggirantesi between sheets of newspaper, books and essays dusty, frequenter of libraries out of the way, little known, and archives.
his beautiful paragraph in which he rails against Alexandre Dumas, guilty in his opinion that he was a real 'buyer of pens of others', and that he passed as his many books, including , the most famous, 'The Count of Monte Cristo ' (written and conceived by this Pier Angelo Fiorentino, Neapolitan writer of great value, and that worked for him).
But let's get to the theme of the post, and we speak the author:
" securities strange weird books there were in all ages, but the triumph of 'frills of stilts of explosions stupid caccabaldole of literature, we in '600 and '700 , the great centuries of emptiness in all . " This is a time when criticism and theology, for example, seriously disputed whether male or female fish that ate Jonah was the prophet, if Aeneas putting your foot in the territory Latin had advanced before the right or left, if the tree under which rested the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt was a palm tree or an elder, and if angels, going from place to place, they walk a straight line or curve like the birds .
" Among the many dissertations at the 'Academy of hypochondriacs Reggio Emilia in 1752 are: If you can specify the number of languages \u200b\u200bthat arose from the confusion of Babel, and if Adam and Eve from Paradise virgins come out. "
But let's titles ...
There is such a " De Lemene that sends out a poem on the descent and nobility of macaroni , who delights in a Arisi dithyrambic Hold on tobacco chewed and smoked , a Martin that Schook you chill with Panegyrics butter and herring .
" In all these books - comments Mascaretti -" the strangeness of the securities is a consequence of the strangeness of the subjects treated in them, but also in the books called serious queer titles abound, even in the age to which I have mentioned, are common onninamente .
We come then to the "Scope to purge the language of Cornelius Loos, the Three fountains on the grammar , the matches to light of divine love, human hearts , the hours for travelers heading to Paradise , the syringe constipated souls in spiritual devotion , and even spiritual Tobacco to the sneeze devout souls to the Savior (Como 1683). This snuff-box, instead of being divided into chapters and paragraphs, is divided into many taken and sneezing ....".
" Despite the changed times, the mania of the title 'effective' still continues and even goes so far that in translations of foreign literary works, when the original title is not a word in our language corresponds, instead of leaving it as such, he often adopts a more 'sensational': the Cure Emile Zola was named in his various Italian translations of the Cockaigne, the Hunting the millions and even Orgies golden .. The Conque de Plassans , more and Zola, was in a translation that was published in Naples Invasion of the priest! , while one of the best novels of Maxim Gorky, whom he wanted simply titled with the name of the protagonist Thomas Gordeieff in Library Amena Treves of Milan has become the publisher: Life is nonsense! .
Mascaretti writes again: "For a poet , a novelist, a playwright, the author of any book of pleasant literature, who founded a new journal, as well as a musician, a painter or a sculptor, the title sometimes becomes something feverish, of haunting, and in the end you see then come out titles extravagant crazy. "
not now certain titles that are in the library are not ridiculous, but it is hard to match these peaks seventeenth and eighteenth century, many centuries in which 'scholars' rather than intellectual, let's face it, they had nothing better to do than dabble in' funny things', and 'what funny ', no doubt, is that for them these were' terribly serious'.
