Revival The Facetiae Of Poggio And Other Medieval Story Tellers 1928

Author : Poggio Bracciolini,
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351339780

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Revival: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (1928) by Poggio Bracciolini, Pdf

The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct line through Latin literature, to the Greek apopthegm. Facetiae, in the literary sense, are also to be found in Oriental literature, espeically the Persian and the Arabian. The Greek apopthegm and its Roman successor had a different character from the Florentine facetia, but the difference is one rather of matter than form. The ribald, licentious note is not so common in the classic facetaie, and the historical anecdotes treating of kings, princes, and persons of high estate were mostly reverent and often adulatory. Satire and disrespect appeared in the humorous tales of Poggio and his peers. The apopthegm was, as a rule, a brief narrative, as often as not enclosing a moral lesson in an historical anecdote. Or else it was the saying of some wise or great man.

Author : Poggio Bracciolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Tales, Medieval
ISBN : 1138571229

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Revival by Poggio Bracciolini Pdf

CXXXVI: Of a Venetian who went to Treviso and had a stone thrown at his back by his servant -- CXXXVII: Facetia of Ridolfo, Signor di Camerino -- CXXXVIII: The gentleman and his miller -- CXXXIX : The Notary's will -- CXL: Merchants' good faith -- CXLI: Husbands and Wives -- CXLII -- The safest ship -- CXLIII: Facetia of some Thieves -- CXLIV: Recalling Solomon -- CXLV : A Woman's Answer -- CXLVI: A good master for thieves -- CXLVII: The wist parent -- CXLVIII: The doctor of law

Author : Poggio Bracciolini,Ludovico Carbone,Giovanni Gioviano Pontano,Lodovico Domenichi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 0203705262

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The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers by Poggio Bracciolini,Ludovico Carbone,Giovanni Gioviano Pontano,Lodovico Domenichi Pdf

Author : Poggio Bracciolini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:600731434

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The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (Lodovico Domenichi, Giovanni Sercambi, Lorenzo Magalotti) by Poggio Bracciolini Pdf

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440876042

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Voices of the Renaissance by John A. Wagner Pdf

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms. Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning "rebirth." The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era.

Author : Byung-Chul Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000094865114

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Historicizing Renaissance Selfhood by Byung-Chul Lim Pdf

Author : Enikő Csukovits
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14T17:35:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788833134321

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Hungary and the Hungarians by Enikő Csukovits Pdf

During the Middle Ages the majority of people in Western Europe never met any Hungarians. They didn’t even hear about them, as news about Hungary only reached Western Europe in times of extraordinary historical events– such as the adoption of Christianity at the turn of the 11th century, or the devastating Tatar invasion in 1241-1242. Obtaining information about the Hungarians from books was also difficult, as medieval Europe, even as late as in the 15th-16th centuries, lacked libraries that would have offered greater numbers of works on Hungary or on Hungarian topics. On top of it all, works that contained the most detailed and accurate information remained unknown, in their own period; posterity only found them in rare manuscript copies discovered much later. Yet once collected, we find that these sources, originating from distant parts of the continent and written for different purposes, contain information about Hungary and the Hungarians that most often reaffirm one another. This work examines these sources and sets out to answer four major questions: What did people in medieval Western Europe know, think, and believe about the Hungarians and Hungary? To what degree was this knowledge constant or fluid over the centuries that made up the medieval era, and were changes in knowledge followed by any changes in appreciation? Where was the country located in the hierarchy of European countries on the basis of the knowledge, suppositions, and beliefs relating to it? What were the most important elements in this image of the Hungarians and of Hungary, and which of them became the most enduring stereotypes?

Author : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108820069

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A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul Pdf

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492

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The Primer of Humor Research by Victor Raskin Pdf

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135204341

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Why Fairy Tales Stick by Jack Zipes Pdf

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Author : Leonardo Bruni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674010663

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History of the Florentine People: Books 5-8 by Leonardo Bruni Pdf

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Author : Aldo Scaglione
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520333611

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Knights at Court by Aldo Scaglione Pdf

Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A.D. 1000) to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Leading medievalist and Renaissance scholar Aldo Scaglione offers a sweeping sociological view of three geographic areas that reveals a surprising continuity of courtly forms and motifs: German romances; the lyrical and narrative literature of northern and southern France; Italy's chivalric poetry. Scaglione discusses a broad number of texts, from early Norman and Flemish baronial chronicles to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the troubadours and Minnesingers. He delves into the Niebelungenlied, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and an array of treatises on conduct down to Castiglione and his successors. All these works and Scaglione's superior scholarship attest to the enduring power over minds and hearts of a mentality that issued from a small minority of people—the courtiers and knights—in central positions of leadership and power. Knights at Court is for all scholars and students interested in "the civilizing process." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author : Joan-Pau Rubiés
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526132

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Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance by Joan-Pau Rubiés Pdf

A detailed study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans during the early modern period, first published in 2000.

Author : Poggio Bracciolini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
ISBN : 0921716109

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The Trial and Burning of John Huss! : an Eye-witness Account by Poggio Bracciolini Pdf

Author : Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004217645

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Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Pdf

This volume contains ten chapters on Persian metaphors, tropes, rhetorical figures, and poetic forms and genres, by some of the world's foremost scholars in the field of classical Persian poetry.