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Renaissance Collections of facetiae, 1344-1490: A New Listing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Barbara C. Bowen
Barbara C. Bowen*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana
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The following list comprises eleven works which were perceived by their contemporaries as anthologies of facetiae and which heavily influenced laterjoke collections. From 1344, when Petrarch revived the Classical facetia tradition based on Cicero and Quintilian, to 1528 when Castiglione drew on Cicero's joke theory for his laughing courtier, each collection offacetiae (though never “original” in our sense of the term) had a different purpose and a different tone. From the 1530s on the joke-books were collective, drawing often literally on a mixture of sources and including the large and very popular compilations of Gast (1541) and Domenichi (1548).

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Research Article
Information
Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , Spring 1986 , pp. 1 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1986

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