Table of Tales xiii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 1
The Plesant Nights
Volume One: Nights One to Five 45
Volume Two: Nights Six to Thirteen 257
Appendix 469
Bibliography 477
Index 487
Suzanne Magnanini is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile (University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Suzanne Magnanini offers a profound and interesting commentary on
the significance of Straparola’s Piacevoli notti. Her
scholarship is superb, her remarks are judicious
and insightful, and her command of history and literary
developments of the Renaissance period is comprehensive,
drawing on fascinating parallels with the works of many other
important authors, including the French salonnières, and
also with developments in science and religion.
Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social
History of a Genre
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