Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance.

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 a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Speroni, Charles
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
سلاسل:UC Press voices revived.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908
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الملخص: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.
وصف المادة:Description based upon print version of record.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (328 p.)
ردمك:9780520310186
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9780520305021