Saturday, November 23, 2019
An Italian Proverb
Gustavo Benelli, Raccolta di proverbi (Firenze: G. Carnesecchi e Figli, 1876), p. 23:
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Corpo pieno, anima consolata.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
Corpo pieno, anima consolata.
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.