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Book The Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Facetious Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Godfather

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  • Author : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0812201396
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Fairy Godfather written by Ruth B. Bottigheimer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola of Caravaggio

Download or read book The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola of Caravaggio written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pleasant Nights

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  • Author : Giovanni Francesco Straparola
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442644265
  • Pages : 777 pages

Download or read book The Pleasant Nights written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Facetious Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nights of Straparola

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  • Author : Giovanni Francesco Straparola
  • Publisher : Pook Press
  • Release : 2018-12-19
  • ISBN : 9781528709248
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by Pook Press. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Facetious Nights of Straparola  Volume 2

Download or read book The Facetious Nights of Straparola Volume 2 written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nights of Straparola   Vol I

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  • Author : Giovanni Francesco Straparola
  • Publisher : No Series Linked
  • Release : 2018-12-19
  • ISBN : 9781528772204
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nights of Straparola Vol I written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by No Series Linked. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fairy Tales Framed

Download or read book Fairy Tales Framed written by Ruth B. Bottigheimer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Most early fairy tale authors had a lot to say about what they wrote. Charles Perrault explained his sources and recounted friends' reactions. His niece Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier and her friend Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy used dedications and commentaries to situate their tales socially and culturally, while the raffish Henriette Julie de Murat accused them all of taking their plots from the Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola and admitted to borrowing from the Italians herself. These reflections shed a bright light on both the tales and on their composition, but in every case, they were removed soon after their first publication. Remaining largely unknown, their absence created empty space that later readers filled with their own views about the conditions of production and reception of the tales. What their authors had to say about "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Rapunzel," among many other fairy tales, is collected here for the first time, newly translated and accompanied by rich annotations. Also included are revealing commentaries from the authors' literary contemporaries. As a whole, these forewords, afterwords, and critical words directly address issues that inform the contemporary study of European fairy tales, including traditional folkloristic concerns about fairy tale origins and performance, as well as questions of literary aesthetics and historical context.

Book The Nights of Straparola  Volume 1

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  • Author : Giovanni Francesco Straparola
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020019401
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Nights of Straparola Volume 1 written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Why Fairy Tales Stick

Download or read book Why Fairy Tales Stick written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Book The Nights of Straparola  Vol  2  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Nights of Straparola Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nights of Straparola, Vol. 2 The fifth fable. Frate Bigoccio becomes enamoured of Gliceria, and, having put on lay attire, fraudulently takes her to wife then, having gotten her with child, forsakes her, and returns to his monastery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Angelica s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Angelica s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy written by Brendan Dooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, attributing ownership to a certain Angelica Baldachini. The discovery sets in motion a series of inquiries, deploying knowledge about calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to reveal the person behind the name. Focusing as much on the possible owner as upon the thing owned, Angelica's Book examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many editions, including the one in question. The intertwined stories of the book and its owner are set against the backdrop of a Renaissance world, still imperfectly understood, in which literature and reading were subject to regimes of control; and the new information throws aspects of this world into further relief, especially in regard to women's involvement with reading, books and knowledge. The inquiry yields unexpected insights concerning the logic of accidental discovery, the nature of evidence, and the mission of the humanities in a time of global crisis. Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking read for any scholar of early modern Europe and its culture.

Book The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Facetious Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Download or read book The Facetious Nights of Straparola written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: