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Poggio di Guccio (the surname Bracciolini added during his career) [3] was born near Arezzo, in Tuscany, in the village of Terranuova, which in 1862 was renamed Terranuova Bracciolini in his honor. Taken by his father to Florence to pursue the studies for which he appeared so apt, he studied Latin under the amanuensis Giovanni Malpaghino [ 4 ...
The Facetiae is an anthology of jokes by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It was the first printed joke book. The collection, "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance", [1] is notable for its inclusion of scatological jokes and tales, six of the tales involving flatulation humor and six involving defecation.
The first printed joke book is Facetiae (full title: Poggii Florentini Oratoris clarissimi facetiarum liber) by Poggio Bracciolini, first published in 1470 and reprinted many times, although earlier manuscripts of this type are known, e..g., Libellus de facetiis Rudolfi regis ("A Little Book with Facetiae about King Rudolph") by a Strasbourg ...
Its most concise telling is in Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae (1450), where it is titled "The man who searched in the river for his dead wife": A man, whose wife had drowned in a stream, went up the river against the current to look for the body. A peasant who saw him marvelled greatly at this, and advised him to follow the flow of the current.
Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and obsessive book hunter, saved the last copy of the Roman poet Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) from near-terminal neglect in a German monastery, thus reintroducing important ideas that sparked the modern age. [4] [5] [6]
Orsini's status put him in a position to be a major patron of the arts, [2] and during the pontificate of Martin V (1417–31), the Cardinal of Santa Sabina, as he was called, became the center of an early circle of humanist culture that included Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Dati and Lorenzo Valla, who recalled [3] how the scholars would gather, dressed in antique robes, to ...
Gordan's life work of editing, translating, and annotating the letters of Poggio Bracciolini to Niccolò de' Niccoli resulted in the 1974 publication of Two Renaissance Book Hunters (Columbia University Press). [1] Her interest in Renaissance manuscripts and her study of Bracciolini's search for "lost" texts fueled her own collecting.
A more thorough reform of handwriting than the Petrarchan compromise was in the offing. The generator of the new style (illustration) was Poggio Bracciolini, a tireless pursuer of ancient manuscripts, who developed the new humanist script in the first decade of the 15th century.