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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Speroni, Charles
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
Cyfres:UC Press voices revived.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908
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Crynodeb: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.
Disgrifiad o'r Eitem:Description based upon print version of record.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:9780520310186
0520310187
9780520305021