Epistles (Horace) of more serious and elevated conviction. Book 1 contains 20 Epistles. Book 2 consists of 3 "epistles." However, the third epistle – the "Ars Poetica" – is usually treated as a separate composition. (For further discussion, see the Wikipedia article on the "Ars Poetica"). Epistles (Horace) The Epistles (or Letters) of Horace were published in two books, in 20 BCE and 14 BCE, respectively. As one commentator has put it: "Horace's "Epistles" may be said to be a continuation of his Satires in the form of letters... But few of the epistles are [actually] letters except in form..." They do
Bagatelles and Satires Bagatelles and Satires Benjamin Franklin was responsible for writing satirical "comedies". His most notable humorous work is the collection called, "The Bagatelles". "The Bagatelles", or "jeux d'espirit" in French, are a collection of comics produced in Franklin's Passy Press in France. "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" is a comedic work Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1773. Franklin wrote it to insult the colonies' secretary of state, but wrote as if giving Machiavellian advice on how to lose an empire. Franklin pretended to advocate the tyranny that many over-imposed rulers desire as necessary to