Facetiae

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Facetiae is a celebrated 15th-century collection of humorous and often bawdy Latin anecdotes and jokes by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini.

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instanceOf book
joke collection
literary work
associatedWith papal curia in Rome
author Poggio Bracciolini NERFINISHED
authorBirthPlace Terranuova Bracciolini NERFINISHED
authorEmployer Roman Curia NERFINISHED
authorNationality Italian
authorOccupation humanist
circulation widely read in Renaissance Europe
circulationForm early printed book
manuscript
countryOfOrigin Italy
culturalContext humanist Latin literature
dateWritten 15th century
genre bawdy stories
humor
satire
hasHumorType obscene jokes
situational comedy
wordplay
hasPart collection of short tales
hasTheme anticlerical satire
mockery of professional groups
sexual humor
social satire
trickery and deception
historicalReputation celebrated collection of jokes
influenced Renaissance humor writing
later European joke literature
intendedAudience educated lay and clerical readers
language Latin
literaryForm anecdote
short story
literaryInfluenceOn early modern jest-books
literaryPeriod Renaissance literature NERFINISHED
mainSubject anecdotes
jokes
movement Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED
notableFor bawdy content
depiction of contemporary clerical life
humorous content
use of colloquial Latin
originalTitle Facetiae NERFINISHED
publicationCentury 15th century
setting late medieval and early Renaissance Italy
style brief and pointed narratives
colloquial dialogue
titleInEnglish Jests NERFINISHED
writtenBy Poggio Bracciolini NERFINISHED

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