Poggio Bracciolini
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| - | '''(Gian Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini''' ([[February 11]], [[1380]] – [[October 30]], [[1459]]) was one of the most important Italian [[Renaissance]] [[humanism|humanists]]. He recovered a great number of classical texts, mostly lying forgotten in German and French monastic libraries, and disseminated copies among the educated world. [[Gershon Legman]]'s ''[[Rationale of the Dirty Joke]]'' was dedicated to him. | + | '''(Gian Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini''' ([[February 11]], [[1380]] – [[October 30]], [[1459]]) was one of the most important Italian [[Renaissance]] [[humanism|humanists]]. He recovered a great number of classical texts, mostly lying forgotten in German and French monastic libraries, and disseminated copies among the educated world. [[Gershon Legman]]'s ''[[Rationale of the Dirty Joke]]'' was dedicated to him, primarily because of the ''[[Facetiae]]'' |
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| - | Bracciolini's ''Facetiae'', a collection of [[humorous]] and [[indecent]] tales expressed in the [[Classical Latin|purest Latin]] Poggio could command are the works most enjoyed today: they are available in several English translations. This book is chiefly remarkable for its unsparing [[satire]]s on the monastic orders and the secular clergy. [[Rabelais]] was familiar with the ''Facetiae'' at the time he wrote ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]''. | + | |
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| - | Poggio published his ''Facetiae'' in [[1451]], when he was seventy years old. They were not condemned by the Vatican because they were written in Latin, legible by the clerical class and incomprehensible to the masses. | + | |
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(Gian Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini (February 11, 1380 – October 30, 1459) was one of the most important Italian Renaissance humanists. He recovered a great number of classical texts, mostly lying forgotten in German and French monastic libraries, and disseminated copies among the educated world. Gershon Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke was dedicated to him, primarily because of the Facetiae
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