Format:
1 Online-Ressource (328 p.)
ISBN:
9780520310186
,
0520310187
Series Statement:
UC Press voices revived
Content:
This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans in the form of apothegms, but not until the Renaissance did the true facetia acquire an independent life and popularity, and begin to spread rapidly throughout Italy and beyond the Alps. The publication of Poggio Bracciolini's Liberfacetiarum was largely responsible for
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520305021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Speroni, Charles Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520305021
Language:
English
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