[PDF] The Nights Of Straparola eBook

Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812201396

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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 : Straparola
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019404928

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A collection of traditional Italian fairy tales from the 16th century, including stories of magic, romance, and adventure that have captivated readers for centuries. 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.

Author : Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442644265

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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 : Pook Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528709248

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Volume I of the first English translation of 'The Nights of Straparola', originally published in 1894. This wonderful book of fairy tales and folk tales is translated by W. G. Waters and is illustrated by E. R. Hughes.