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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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Speroni, Charles
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
Серии:UC Press voices revived.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167908