The Facetious Nights of Straparola
- The Facetious Nights of Straparola
"The Facetious Nights of Straparola", also known as "The Nights of Straparola", is a two-volume collection of 75 fairy tales produced by the Italian writer and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola in the first half of the sixteenth century. The work was first published in Italy under the title "Le piacevoli notti" ("the pleasant nights"). Straparola was then translated into Spanish in 1583.
The work was modelled on "Decamerone"; in it, participants of a 13-night party in the island of Murano, near Venice, tell each other stories that vary from bawdy to fantastic. [Jack Zipes, "The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm", p 841, ISBN 0-393-97636-X] It contains the first known written versions of many fairy tales. [Steven Swann Jones, "The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination", Twayne Publishers, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-8057-0950-9, p38] He is also thought to have written the original story of "Beauty and the Beast". Fact|date=February 2007
Among the fairy tales included were:
*The Pig King
*Costantino Fortunato, the oldest known variant of "Puss-in-Boots"
*Ancilotto, King of Provino, the oldest known variant of "The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird"
*Biancabella and the Snake
*Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi
*Guerrino and the Savage Man, the oldest known variant of "Iron John" [Paul Delarue, "The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales", p. 384, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956]
*Costanza / Costanzo
External links
* [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/facetiousnights/index.html SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: The Facetious Nights of Straparola]
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