Greenblatt speaking through Poggio Bracciolini:
[Poggio] went back to his desk and, in his best Latin, fashioned the conversations he had had in the Lie Factory into something he entitled the Facetiae.
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These relics [The Facetiae, et al], like the remains of long-dead insects, tell us what once buzzed about in the air of the Vatican.
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There is the woman who tells her husband that she has two cunts (duos cunnos), one in front that she will share with him, the other behind that she wants to give, pious soul that she is, to the Church. The arrangement works because the parish priest is only interested in the share that belongs to the Church.
[Poggio] went back to his desk and, in his best Latin, fashioned the conversations he had had in the Lie Factory into something he entitled the Facetiae.
...
These relics [The Facetiae, et al], like the remains of long-dead insects, tell us what once buzzed about in the air of the Vatican.
...
There is the woman who tells her husband that she has two cunts (duos cunnos), one in front that she will share with him, the other behind that she wants to give, pious soul that she is, to the Church. The arrangement works because the parish priest is only interested in the share that belongs to the Church.
