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Facetia (singular; plural: facetiae) is a European literary genre from the epoch of Renaissance of short humorous stories: jokes, jests, witticisms; drollery, often obscene or coarse,
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 clergyman Albert of Strasbourg, which contained anecdotes about Rudolf I of Germany (erroneously attributed to a certain Albertus Argentinensis). Since then many other authors printed collections of facetiae, in Latin, and later in other European languages.
Other notable collections
Faceciae Polskie abo Żartowne a trefne powieście biesiadne ... teraz znowu poprawione i przydano (Polish Faceciae, Or...)
Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est joco-seriorum fasciculus novus
It contains a number of facetious parodies of scientific and philosophical treatises: Delineatio Summorum Capitum Lustitudinis studenticae In Nonnullis Academiis ufitata, p.1. Discursus Methodicus de Peditu, eiusque speciebus, crepitu & isio, in Theses digestus, p. 17. Disputatio Feudalis de cucurbitatione, p. 43. Disputatio Inauguralis, Thcoretico-Practica, de Ivre Potadini, p. 55. Nobile scabiei encomiun, p. 101. Bonus mulier sive Centuria Iuridica Practica Quaestionum illustrium : de Mulieribus vel uxoribus, p. 139. Iucunda de osculis Dissertatio historica, Philolica, p. 185. Theses inaugurales de Virginibus, p. 251. Disputatio de Iure et Natura pennalium, p. 303. De multisciis studiosis et magistris, p. 333. Theses de cochleatione, p. 379. De Hanreitate, p. 445. Theses de hsione et hasibili qualitate, p. 511. Floia cortum versicalem, p. 531. Disputatio de Cornelio et eiudem natura Ac Propietate, p. 539. De Beanis, p. 559.
See also
Schwank
Fabliau
Polish absurd literature
Ribald comedy
References
Further reading
Werner Röcke, Witz und Öffentlichkeit. Die Kunst der Fazetien. In: Werner Röcke, Helga Neumann (eds.): Komische Gegenwelten. Lachen und Literatur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-506-77269-4, Spp. 79–101.
Hans Peter Buohler, „De urbanis et facetis“. Urbanitas in den Fazetien Poggios und Bebels. In: Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen. 32, 2008/2010, ISSN 0342-4340, Spp. 1–24.
Johannes Klaus Kipf, Cluoge geschichten. Humanistische Fazetienliteratur im deutschen Sprachraum (= Literaturen und Künste der Vormoderne. 2). Hirzel, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7776-1610-0.
