Facetie

Resource Information

The work Facetie represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Facetie

Statement of responsibility

di Poggio Fiorentino, historiate

Creator

• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459

Contributor

• Bindoni, Francesco, active 1523-1553

Printer

• Bindoni, Francesco, active 1523-1553

Subject

• Wit and humor, Medieval

Language

ita

Summary

Italian translation of Bracciolini's Facetiae, a collection of 179 joking and irreverent tales, which were always vulgar, and often obscene, and anticlerical.

Member of

• Facetiae

Cataloging source

CLU

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Bracciolini, apostolic secretary and member of the papal court for many years, and his learned colleagues would attend the nightly sessions of the "Bugiale," a storytellers' circle, where they would tell lewd jokes and stories, and listen to anecdotes of bishops, princes, and peasants. These anecdotes and jokes are retold in the Facetie