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GirolamoZorli wrote: I have no idea what those birds are, I am a townboy. Right, Mantua it's on the Mincio and Po rivers confluence forming a lake. So folaga could be a water bird.

It is here ...
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulica

Any ideas about Focilla or Mirtella? Meaning of the names?

Focilla ? don't know. Foce is a river mouth getting into a sea, or a lake. Focilla could be a small foce.

Mirtella ? again, no idea. Mirto is myrtle, of course. Mirtella could be reletad to it.

GirolamoZorli wrote:Mirtella ? again, no idea. Mirto is myrtle, of course. Mirtella could be reletad to it.

Thanks, fine.

The picture turns clear now. I would say, that "Falcone" addresses the man-dog Fulchetta (Mullaney explains in her list, that occasionally Falco is used instead of Fulchetto in the "Baldo").
Focilla seems to be indeed Cilla, who is the sister of Hecuba, wife of Priamos. And she and her son died cause of the bad oracle of Priamos instead her sister Hecuba and her son Paris. The result is, that the boy Paris gets a chance to live and that Paris through his desire to get Helena destroys Troja. So without Cilla Homer would have had nothing to talk about and also Virgil wouldn't have written about Aeneas. So indeed ... Cilla, a woman of some importance.

As Cilla has not much myth herself, one has to recognize her through her sister Hecuba. Hecuba in her death death scene transforms into a dog (seems to be the Ovid version). And such a woman-dog is naturally a good partner for Fulchetto, the man-dog in Folengo's "Baldo". Further Hecuba has to do with myrtles in a scene, which plays in Thracia after the Trojans had fled under the guidance of Aeneas.
The story is told in the myth of the last surviving son of Priamos, the young Polydoros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydorus_ ... f_Priam%29

The story of the Myrtle (for Myrtella) is given in this analysis (Wikipedia leaves the myrtle detail aside:
[img]ttp://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-11/fol/hecuba-1.jpg[/img]

The story of the dog (for the woman-dog), which seems to be given only by Ovid:


Hekuba's revenge ... a dog is present.


Hekuba's revenge ... other women try to kill her with stones. A dog (Hekuba) runs after the stones.


The dog runs away.

Pictures from http://www.latein-pagina.de/ovid/ovid_m13.htm#6

The online version of the 1546 edition of the Triperuno has rather obviously one or two missing last pages.
http://books.google.de/books?id=nyQ8AAA ... &q&f=false

The 1911 version (not the electronic text) had the content page as last page, as far I remember. I don't know, where this edition is for the moment.

The last page of the 1546 online facsimile appears to me not to be a page that comes after the one before it, which seems to be the last page of the book, but just a copy of the page before that one.

For the edition of the Chaos that has an "indice" at the back, perhaps you are thinking of Portioli's, 1889, of which there is a facsimile (from Princeton's library) at http://books.google.com/books?id=l0RKAA ... ne&f=false

Another printing of that edition (in Harvard's library) is linked to at http://www.teofilofolengo.org/index2.php. It has Arabic numerals in the indice rather than Roman ones

The indice in these books, however, is just to the sections of Portioli's introduction, not to the poem itself.

There is also a link at teofilofolengo.org to what I presume is a facsimile of the Renda, 1911, but that link is broken. It is in Google Books, http://books.google.com/books/about/Ope ... zUjwEACAAJ, but I can't see that it is searchable or has pages for viewing. Perhaps you will have better luck. If you can't find it, I can probably get that edition on interlibrary loan.

Verhältnis der Ed(ition) Toscolana des Baldus von Cipada Teofilo Folengos zu der Ed(ition) Cipadense und zur Histoire Maccaronique de Merlin Coccaie
by Friedrich Lehnert
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_ ... 00108619/0
Dissertation of 1902

The presentation of the text is rather confused. Nonetheless one can read, that the author followed a strange French translation of the Baldus, which shows various additions to the then known common "Baldus".

The French translation appeared as ...
Histoire Maccaronique de Merlin Coccaie, Prototype de Rabelais. Ou est traicte les Ruses de Cingar, les tours de Boccal, les adventures de Leonard, les forces de Fracasse, les enchantemens de Gelfore et Pandrague, et les rencontres heureuses de B"lde etc. Plus Thorrible Bataille advenu" entre les Mouches et les Fourmis.
... in the year 1606 at Tous saincts du Bray, au Palais, en la galerie des Prisonniers

Some research led the author to the assumption, that the French edition followed an earlier extended "Baldus" production, published in 1533, from which the author assumes, that it was made by Folengo.
The author proceeds with comparing this edition with the then common Baldus.

Likely that's all already well known by the research of the Baldus text. Is it? I don't know ... At least I find a better edition in the online material ...
https://archive.org/details/verhltnisderedt00lehngoog