Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

Contents: Preface Humanist Wit: Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1344-1490: a new listing Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1499-1528: a new listing Roman jokes and the Renaissance prince, 1455-1528 Ciceronian wit and Renaissance rhetoric The collection of facezie attributed to Angelo Poliziano Paolo Cortesi's laughing cardinal Festive humanism: the case of Luscinius Rabelais: Rire est le propre de l'homme Rabelais's Panurge as homo rhetoricus Rabelais et le propos torcheculatif Lenten eels and Carnival sausages Bragueta juris: notes sur Rabelais et le droit Rabelais and the Library of Saint-Victor Janotus de Bragmardo in the limelight (Gargantua, ch. 19) Rabelais and Folengo once again French Humanist Humour: 'Honneste' et sens de l'humour au XVIe siecle Facetie/sententia/apophtegme: les Divers propos memorables de Gilles Corrozet Tabourot facetus: le sieur Gaulard 'Lasciuetez' et scatologie: la rhetorique des Escraignes dijonnoises Beroalde de Verville and the self-destructing book 'Il faut donner dedans': sexe ou/et rhetorique dans le Moyen de parvenir 'Serious' Humanists: Geofroy Tory's Champ Fleury and its major sources Cornelius Agrippa's De vanitate: polemic or paradox? Jacques Tahureau revisited Emblems, elephants, and Alexander Index

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