The following list comprises eleven works which were perceived by their contemporaries as anthologies of facetiae and which heavily influenced laterjoke collections. From 1344, when Petrarch revived the Classical facetia tradition based on Cicero and Quintilian, to 1528 when Castiglione drew on Cicero's joke theory for his laughing courtier, each collection offacetiae (though never “original” in our sense of the term) had a different purpose and a different tone. From the 1530s on the joke-books were collective, drawing often literally on a mixture of sources and including the large and very popular compilations of Gast (1541) and Domenichi (1548).