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The calligraphy on the banner, adapted from a Chinese ink rubbing,
is by Mi Fu (1051-1107), one of the great Song dynasty masters.
The two characters read fu floating & chai (zhai in pin-yin) which means studio or retreat.

The calligraphy on the banner, adapted from a Chinese ink rubbing, is by Mi Fu (1051-1107), one of the great Song dynasty masters. The two characters read fu floating & chai which means studio or retreat.
Hence: Floating Studio.

 

 

 

Originally published in:

The Guardian Review of Books
27 December 2008 p. 12
(external link.) 

 Renaissance rapper

Olivier Burckhardt dips into the
boisterous netherworld of a monk
turned fabulator

Review of:

Baldo
Volume 1 Books I-XII
Volume 2 Books XIII-XXV
 

by Teofilo Folengo
Translated by Ann E. Mullaney

(Harvard University Press 2007-2008)

Full text of the review is available online at the Guardian website:

The Guardian Review of Books
27 December 2008 p. 12
(external link.) 

A revised and expanded version
of this review appeared as:

“Renaissance Fabulator”
Quadrant, Vol. 53, No. 3, Mar. 2009
pp. 123-124

Additional information on Baldo
(aka Baldus) and Teofilo Folengo
can be found at:

www.folengo.com