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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Hlavní autor: Speroni, Charles
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
Edice:UC Press voices revived.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908
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Shrnutí: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.
Popis jednotky:Description based upon print version of record.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:9780520310186
0520310187
9780520305021