The Facetious Nights of Straparola
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0812201396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city. With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language.
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 424
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 1442644265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text.
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-11-08
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781519188724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1480 - 1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector. He has been termed the progenitor of the literary form of the fairy tale. Straparola's main work is The Facetious Nights of Straparola (Le piacevoli notti, published 1550-1555), a collection of 75 stories. Modelled on Decamerone, it has participants of a 13-night party in the island of Murano, near Venice, tell each other stories that vary from bawdy to fantastic. It contains the first known written versions of many fairy tales.
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780344146558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1135210292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. For this new edition, the author has revised the work throughout and added a new introduction bringing this classic title up to date.
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021920133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prepare to be transported to a world of wonder and enchantment in this collection of stories from the Italian Renaissance. Giovanni Francesco Straparola's tales range from the silly to the profound, from the moralistic to the scandalous. This collection includes such classics as 'Petrosinella' (the tale of Rapunzel) and 'Cinderella'. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of fairy tales or Renaissance literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.