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facetiae| In the Renaissance, humorous, often indecent, anecdotes and stories that circulated in Latin among the humanist scholars. The first and one of the most popular collections was Facetiae (or Liber facetiarum) by the Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini, the chief targets being the monastic orders and the secular clergy. They were akin to the medieval fabliaux. |
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No references found | Roquelaure (Anne Rice), The Pearl: A Journal Of Facetiae And Voluptuous Reading, The Story Of O by Pauline Reage, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Belinda by Anne Rice, Totally Herotica edited by Susie Bright, Macho Sluts by Pat Califia, Vox by Nicholson Baker, Delta Of Venus and Little Birds by Anais Nin, and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. 62) Sticht grouped the Hendriks collection together in his catalogue with other collections of fragments and ephemera such as the 2887 'Items from James Roberts Brown Collection', a diverse group of 'Coronation and Funeral Tickets, Handbills, Playbills, Advertisements, Facetiae, Tradesman's Billheads, Broadsides . 41) Ricci, 1:443: "Nam sive risum quaeras creberrimum, quod populo maxime placere intelligo, id ex Plauto sumas licebit (sed ne risum tamen excedat, erit tibi magnopere vedendum: sales enim et facetiae usque eo sales sunt, quoad intra legem suam continentur; cum vero ad scurrilitatem luxuriantur, tum plebeio tantum dignae sunt theatro). |
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