Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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"Straparola deals abundantly in the supernatural. The old folk tale of the young man who wooed and won the King of Poland's daughter by his power to transform himself into an eagle, a wolf, and an ant, ia given with scarcely any artificial modifications, whereas Ser Giovanni two centuries before was careful to exclude the fabulous from his tales. Straparola's tales were very popular in France, where many imitations of them appeared. The book underwent, according to Brakelmann, twenty -eight editions. The work, which is one of the most indecent of its kind, was prohibited by the Church in 1605, notwithstanding which, however, it was reprinted at Venice in 1608."--History of Fiction (1814) by John Colin Dunlop "Straparola has borrowed copiously from preceding authors. Thus the 3d of 1st night was probably taken from John of Capua's "Directorium," and originally derived from the Hitopadesa. "--History of Fiction (1814) by John Colin Dunlop |
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Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1485?-1558) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector, best-known for his collection of stories in two volumes called The Facetious Nights or The Pleasant Nights. This collection includes some of the first known printed versions of fairy tales in Europe, as they are known today.
