This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":6047,"date":"2013-02-13T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2017-10-12T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:58:32","slug":"treasures-from-the-rare-book-room-willibald-pirckheimer%e2%80%99s-podagra-laus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/treasures-from-the-rare-book-room-willibald-pirckheimer%e2%80%99s-podagra-laus\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures from the Rare Book Room: Willibald Pirckheimer\u2019s Podagra Laus"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ One of his later published works was Apologia seu Podagrae laus<\/em> (Nuremberg 1522), an ironic praise of gout, from which he suffered. In this short witty eulogy to gout, Pirckheimer takes on the role of \u201cwoman gout,\u201d in a literary game to settle scores with his enemies.<\/p>\n

This 16th century leaflet, housed in the Falk Library Rare Book Room<\/a>, is only 23 pages long. The text is in perfect condition. Its title page has a beautiful woodcut border. There are no illustrations other than the two woodcut initials at the beginning of the preface and the main text. The book has a contemporary paper binding. It was a common practice for the purchaser of a book to order a binding since early prints were usually published without them. Therefore, the binding tells us more about the owner than the publisher. The book was donated to the library in 1985 as part of the Gerald Rodnan collection.<\/p>\n

This book can be viewed in the Rare Book Room by appointment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~ Gosia Fort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"