Joys of Italian Humor - Softcover

Spalding, Henry D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0756761190 ISBN 13: 9780756761196

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 1997

This collection of anecdotes, short stories, play excerpts, jokes, quips, and proverbs provides an entertaining overview of 2,500 years of Italian wit and humor. Literally hundreds of characters come alive in these pagesfrom the jesters of the Renaissance to the political big-shots of today.

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About the Author:

HENRY D. SPALDING, a native of New York City, was a reporter for the New York Mirror and the Journal. While a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., he was an accredited White House correspondent.

In the 1950s he moved to Los Angeles, where he was active as editor and publisher of Deejay, Disc, and Top Tenall music magazinesas well as of Talent News, a show-business trade journal.

Mr. Spalding's Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor was issued in 1969 and has since gone through many editions. This was followed by Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor, Joys of Irish Humor, and Joys of Italian Humor and Folklore, all of which have established him as one of the leading experts on ethnic humor.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

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