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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Main Author: Speroni, Charles
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
Series:UC Press voices revived.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908
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