by Poggio Bracciolini · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446013549
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In 'Libro de chistes', Poggio Bracciolini compiles stories told in the pontifical hall, seeking to provoke laughter and, secondarily, offer a moral lesson. This collection of 'facetiae' exhibits human diversity and the pursuit of pleasure, satirizing behaviors without strictly condemning them, but rather contemplating them with humor. Despite its inclusion in the 'Index Expurgatorius' in 1545, the work reflects the decadence of 15th-century Rome with a satirical genius that never lost the respect of the Church Fathers. This edition by Ediciones Akal, translated by Carmen Olmedilla Herrero, offers a vision of humanity with its virtues and miseries.
