La follia in Erasmo e in Faustino da Tredozio

To address the relationship between Faustino da Tredozio, and the more famous Erasmus of Rotterdam, we trace here a profile of Faustino as a well-known vulgar poet, linked to the Bolognese and Florentine culture, who, after obtaining a certain popular success, aspires to become a humanist and a Latin poet. We also outline the various cultural and editorial networks in which he is inserted, as well as--as regards the works that appeared posthumously--the European cultural context in which they are produced, with special regard to the widespread theme of 'madness' (follia). In the Appendix, the "Testament newly made by Messer Faustin Terdotio".