De remediis utriusque fortunae

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De remediis utriusque fortunae in a French manuscript from 1391. Douai , Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 694, fol. 162r

De remediis utriusque fortunae is one of the main works of the Italian humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374). Petrarch worked on it from 1354 to 1367. He describes in Latin prose in 254 chapters the destinies and misfortunes of man. In the first part (122 chapter), the personified reason (ratio) shows that all supposed happiness is vain. In the second part (132 chapters) reason gives reasons for consolation against the supposed misfortune.

The book was also widely used in translations into the vernacular. The German translation, published in 1532 by Heynrich Steyner in Augsburg under the title Von der Artzney bayder Glück , was edited with the assistance of the humanist Sebastian Brant and illustrated with 254 woodcuts after the anonymous Petrarca master . None of the woodcuts is titled, but each woodcut clarifies the chapter it is illustrating. The work was reprinted many times. It was subsequently marketed under catchier German titles, such as Glückbuch (Augsburg 1539), Trostbuch (Frankfurt am Main 1551 and 1559) and Trostspiegel (Frankfurt am Main, six editions from 1572 to 1620, Lüneburg 1637). The woodcuts from the 1532 edition were still used in the 1620 edition.

Man between the four elements. Woodcut by the Petrarca master from Von der Artzney bayder Glück , 1532

An English translation by Thomas Twyne appeared in 1579 under the title Phisicke Against Fortune .

literature

  • Paul Michel: Transformation and augmentation with Petrarch and his master . In: Martin Schierbaum (Ed.): Enzyklopädistik 1550–1650 , Münster 2009, pp. 349–377. PDF, 3 MB

Web links

Commons : De remediis utriusque fortunae  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • De remediis utriusque fortunae , Cremonae, B. de Misintis ac Caesaris Parmensis, 1492. Online at Wikisource
  • “ From Artzney bayder Glück / des guoten and disgusting. And everyone knows how to keep themselves happy and unhappy. Drawn to the German language outside of Latin. With artificial figures, completely funny and beautifully decorated. ”Augsburg: Heynrich Steyner 1532. Online at gallica
  • Il De remediis utriusque fortune . Online lesson at rai
  • De remediis utriusque fortunae German partial transmission "The healing of both kinds of happiness"