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Facetie, fabule, motti, del Piouano Arlotto prete fiorentino, huomo di grande ingegno : opera diletteuole vulgare in lingua toscha historiata con piu facetie agiõte nouamẽte stampate

Mainardi, Arlotto, 1396-1483 · 1538 · Stampata in Vinegia : Per Bernardino di Bindoni milanese del lago mazore · 9 pictures

Facetie, fabule, motti del Piouano Arlotto is a 1538 Italian collection of jokes and anecdotes about the Florentine priest Arlotto Mainardi (1396-1483), printed in Venice by Bernardino di Bindoni for a general vernacular readership. Its woodcut illustrations are small, framed narrative scenes of clerics, townsfolk and shopkeepers in everyday exchanges, with bold outlines and clear figure silhouettes that suggest simple staging for comic storytelling.

Wit and humor, Medieval · Italian wit and humor

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