Poor Richard's Almanack

Poor Richard's Almanack, editio anni 1739.

Poor Richard's Almanack ('Fasti Ricardi Pauperis'), aliquando Almanac tantum, fuit fasti annui a Beniamino Franklinio editi, qui pseudonymo Ricardi Pauperis (plene Ricardi Saunders) pro hoc proposito utebatur. Libellus ab 1732 ad 1758 continenter apparebet, bestseller inter libellos in coloniis Americanis editus; numerus exemplarium impressorum 10 000 fere per annum erant.[1][2]

Franklinio, inventori, viro civili, physico, et duci domus editoria Americano, Poor Richard's Almanack fuit bene res gesta. Tales libelli populo gratissimi in America coloniali erant, temporales caeli praenuntiationes, consilia domestica utilia, aenigmata, et alia oblectamenta mixta praebentes.[3] Poor Richard's Almanack populo gratus etiam pro latus ludi verborum usu, et nonnullae locutiones facetae in opere fictae iam in patrio sermone hodierno supersunt.[4]

  1. Charles A. Goodrich (1829). Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. W. Reed & Company. p. 267 
  2. Oracle ThinkQuest (2003)
  3. The History Place (1998)
  4. Innovation Philadelphia 2005.

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