The Circe / of Signior Giovanni Battista Gelli of the Academy of Florence. Consisting of ten dialogues between [Ulysses and several] men transform'd into beasts: giving a lively representation of the various passions, and [the] many infelicities of humane life. Done out of Italian, by Mr. Tho. Brown.

  • Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563.
Date:
1702
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Credit: The Circe / of Signior Giovanni Battista Gelli of the Academy of Florence. Consisting of ten dialogues between [Ulysses and several] men transform'd into beasts: giving a lively representation of the various passions, and [the] many infelicities of humane life. Done out of Italian, by Mr. Tho. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Paftio, the Aderitilo Alvi, the Lienteria, the Celiaca affetto, the Diarrhea, the Dyfentery, the Tenefmus, the Fluxus Hepaticus, the Lumbrici, the Hemorrhoids, and that Royal Difeafe, the Fiftula. Vlyffes. I muft e’en have Patience, and heat him out. This ’tis to fall into the Hands of of a noify, execrable Quack. Snake. Go to the Reins, Bladder, and fo forth, there you’ll find the Calculus, the In- flammatio, the MiUus Sanguinis, the Diabe¬ tes, the Incontinentia Drine, the Ifcuria, with a hundred more that (hall be namelels. If you go to the Eye, there you have your Gatta, Serena, your Cataratti, your Ophthal¬ mia, your Epiphola, your JEgilops, your Fiftula Lachrymalis, your ——— Vlyjjes. The Coxcomb thinks himfelf on a Stage, where he has a Privilege to murder People with hard words. Snake. If to the Ear, there’s your Surditas, your Sonitus, your Dolor aurium. UlyJJes. That laft Diftemper thou haft gi¬ ven me with a witnefs, I thank thee for’t. I find he’s refolv’d to difpatch me. Snake. If ro the Nofe, you cannot mifs the Ozana, the Polypus, the Fetor narium, the Hemoragia,and the Coryza. If to the Tongue—.