Percorsi della facezia fra Tre e Quattrocento

pp: 59 DOI: 10.7368/71018

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In this paper the history of the Latin â€
œ
facetiaeâ€
between the 14th and 15th centuries is considered specifically in relation with the heredity of Petrarch
Boccaccio and the highest moment of theoretical reflection
that is the last ten years of Pontano. Pontano transformed this literary genre into an expressive register
an anecdotic collection into an organic book of poetical theory
but principally he rewrote the facetia in various different literary forms (short stories
theatrical piÃ¨ces
heroic-comic poems)
using a subtle variety of registers