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-'''''Table-talk; or, Selections from the ana. Containing extracts from the different collections of ana, French, English, Italian, and German''''' (1827) by [[George Moir]] is a colllection of [[ana]]. 
-From the introduction[http://books.google.com/books?id=od8DTJQa9gkC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=%22The+taste+for+those+collections+which,+under+the+title+of+Ana+form+so+conspicuous+and+so+interesting+a+%22&source=bl&ots=8EPvvodwvy&sig=BAOO9RDqM4h_istP8MWWO5MUgQ4&hl=en&ei=0lRLTKrpGc2aOPXlvJYD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20taste%20for%20those%20collections%20which%2C%20under%20the%20title%20of%20Ana%20form%20so%20conspicuous%20and%20so%20interesting%20a%20%22&f=false]:+# Objects that are [[connect]]ed to or [[remind]] their owner of past [[event]]s.
- +#: ''George has a collection of World War II '''memorabilia'''.''
-:The taste for those collections which, under the title of ''Ana'' form so conspicuous and so interesting a portion of [[French literature]], is both of high antiquity, and wide extent. The same blending of moral [[apothegm]]s, of critical remarks, of serious and comic [[anecdote]]s, of scientific or literary information, which distinguishes the French Ana is to be traced, more or less modified by natural habits, and the state of human knowledge in the ''Nasr Eddin'' the ''[[Bassiri]]'', and ''[[Teudai]]'' of the Turks and Arabians, in the ''[[Memorabilia]]'' of [[Plato]] and [[Xenophon]], in the [[Enchiridion of Epictetus|Enchiridion]] of [[Arrian]], and in the ''[[Noctes Atticae]]'' of [[Aulus Gellius]]. The [[Bons Mots]] of [[Cicero]] we know were compiled by no less a person than [[Julius Caesar]], while another collection of his good things, we are told by [[Quinctilian]], was made by a freedman under the title, De Jods Ciceronis. [[Quinctilian]] himself has favoured us with not a few specimens of the Roman Orator's jocular vein, from which we may fairly conclude, that these collections of his sayings would have borne no inconsiderable resemblance to the comic portion of the Menagiana. +
- +
-In modern' Italy the taste for such collections seems to have been not less general. Of +
-the older works of this class little is known; though there is every reason to think that +
-the Facetiae sLaAPoggiana pf [[Poggio]] were by no means the earliest works of the kind. Many of the novels of Boccaccio are merely [[repartee]]s and [[remark]]s attributed to celebrated persons, in the style of the Poggitiana and the collection attributed to [[iBneas Syl* +
-vius Piccolomini]] ; and nearly one half of the tales of [[Sacchetti]] are composed of anecdotes+
-of this kind. The Facetice of P(^gio, however, is the only Italian work of this class +
-which is geperally known. It embodies the scandal of the time, and the coarsely licentious, but often singularly comic tales and anecdotes, with which Poggio and the other clerks of the Roman Chancery used to amuse themselves in an apartment of the Vatican to which they had given the appropriate nam of the Btiggialef or as Poggio himself translates it, [[Mendaciorum Officina]]. Unfornately, the best articles in that collection so strongly tinctured with coarseness or obscenity, that few specimens of it can be 'hibited in translation* +
- +
-lany again, the [[Loci Communes]] of n and the CdOoquia Mensalia of +
-oiigh differing in the character of +
-)nts from the coarser works of the +
-dong also to the class of .^6ia. The +
-larkable for the theolc^cal leam- +
-lays, and'the information it com- +
-as to the early state of the re- +
-ircb. The second is a most sin- +
-rd of the conversations of the +
-in which learning is strangely +
-tk gross ignorance on some points, +
-acute reasoning with mysticism, +
-ous and intrepid spirit of inquiry, +
-"ossest superstition and credulity, +
-to France that we are indebted for +
-iteresting, instructive, and amu- +
-of this class. And, accordingly, +
-hese sources that the present vo- +
-3en principall V derived. Of these +
-the earKest, m point of date, is +
-^ono, which professes to contain +
-IS and conversations of Joseph +
-nd was published in 1699. But +
-is altogether unworthy of that +
-», and affords little which is cal- +
-afford either amusement or in- +
-From the remaining collections +
-acts have been made, particular- +
-Mmagtana^ and the Mekatges cf +
-^e Litifyrature of Vigneul Mar ville.+
-and short notices of the authors ha\ +
-prefixed to the selections from each. +
-English Literature affords bat few +
-of this kind, and it can scarcely be sa +
-any of these possesses distinguished +
-The lable-Talk of Selden derives il +
-interest from the learned name with +
-it is associated. The JValpoliana is t +
-which approaches nearest to the chi +
-of the French Ana. Some of the mo +
-king passages in the conversations oi +
-son, extracted fromBoswell'sLife^ an +
-under the head of Johnsoniana; anc +
-selections from the valuable, but impc +
-known Omniana of Southey, close +
-tracts from the English Jna. +
- +
---Edinburgh, July 1827. +
-==See also==+
-*[[Table talk]]+
-*[[Ana]]+
 +====Synonyms====
 +* [[mementos]]
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