La novella del grasso legnaiuolo

"Por isso é que a maior parte das coisas cómicas estavam, como se diz, na mente do Gordo. Daqui nasceu toda a minúcia com que a novela pôde ser escrita e o poder dar-se dela inteira notícia, pois Filippo a reproduziu depois algumas vezes com precisão, e dos que a ouviram se tirou depois esta versão. Leggi tutto

Set in Florence in the late 1400s, this tells the story of a big prank that a group of friends, including the author and Filipo Brunelleschi the famous architect of Il Duomo, the dome of the Florence cathedral, the foremost masterpiece of renaissance architecture, played on a woodcarver that one day Leggi tutto

I read this book because a history teacher at my kids’ high school has proposed using it as part of the Western Civilization curriculum. His rationale was that it was a tale of a practical joke and that it could provide a humorous insight into the daily lives of people during the Renaissance. It is a Leggi tutto

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