by Poggio Bracciolini · La Spiga-Meravigli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788871007588
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«Liber facetiarum» is the collection of short tales by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini, published by La Spiga-Meravigli in Italian (172 pages, paperback).
A work of Renaissance humanism that brings together anecdotes, jokes and short stories with which Poggio Bracciolini portrays with wit and satire the customs, trades and characters of his time, from clerics and jurists to common folk, in a popular and mordant style that marked European short fiction.
Part of the «Pagine disperse» collection by La Spiga-Meravigli, published in 1995 within its line of classic readings in Italian.
Suitable for students of Italian and readers interested in humanist literature and the European tradition of the tale and the facetia.
