Wednesday, September 02, 2020
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Barbara C. Bowen, One Hundred Renaissance Jokes: An Anthology (Birmingham: Summa Publications, Inc., 1988), pp. 25-26:
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29. A Joke about Urinating (200, [Motto del Piovano Arlotto sendo in una compagnia che orinavano])Related posts:
Andando a solazzo con certi suoi amici el detto Piovano, tutti si fermorono a orinare e il Piovano con loro insieme; e agiunsevi che fe' uno terribile peto, in modo che tutti si maravigliorono. Disse il Piovano: —Pigliate voi ammirazione sì grande d'uno peto abbi fatto: or non vi pare egli che uno trombone istà bene tra tanti pifferi?7
Witty remark made by Arlotto in a group of men urinating
While Arlotto was going to an outing with some of his friends, they all stopped to urinate, and Arlotto with them; and it happened that he let out a terrific fart, so that they were all astonished. But Arlotto said: "You are so astonished by the fart I produced, but don't you think that a trombone goes well with so many whistles?"7
7 Breaking wind while urinating is a topic later discussed by the French doctor Laurent Jouben in his Erreurs populaires (1578).
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