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The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if
we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its
history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of
prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct
line through Latin literature, to the Greek apopthegm. Facetiae, in
the literary sense, are also to be found in Oriental literature,
espeically the Persian and the Arabian. The Greek apopthegm and its
Roman successor had a different character from the Florentine
facetia, but the difference is one rather of matter than form. The
ribald, licentious note is not so common in the classic facetaie,
and the historical anecdotes treating of kings, princes, and
persons of high estate were mostly reverent and often adulatory.
Satire and disrespect appeared in the humorous tales of Poggio and
his peers. The apopthegm was, as a rule, a brief narrative, as
often as not enclosing a moral lesson in an historical anecdote. Or
else it was the saying of some wise or great man.
The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if
we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its
history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of
prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct
line through Latin literature, to the Greek apopthegm. Facetiae, in
the literary sense, are also to be found in Oriental literature,
espeically the Persian and the Arabian. The Greek apopthegm and its
Roman successor had a different character from the Florentine
facetia, but the difference is one rather of matter than form. The
ribald, licentious note is not so common in the classic facetaie,
and the historical anecdotes treating of kings, princes, and
persons of high estate were mostly reverent and often adulatory.
Satire and disrespect appeared in the humorous tales of Poggio and
his peers. The apopthegm was, as a rule, a brief narrative, as
often as not enclosing a moral lesson in an historical anecdote. Or
else it was the saying of some wise or great man.
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