Giulio Cesare Croce
Italian popular writer and storyteller (1550–1609), known for satirical prose and comic tales such as the Bertoldo cycle; active in the Bologna region during the late Renaissance.
Books
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1. Le Sottilissime Astuzie Di Bertoldo
A lively, picaresque collection of comic episodes centered on a shrewd, earthy peasant who is invited to a Lombard royal court and repeatedly uses rough common sense, wordplay and small deceptions to expose the pretensions of nobles and bureaucrats; told in a folksy, dialect-inflected voice, the stories mix coarse humor and satire to celebrate popular wit and poke fun at social hierarchy.