About “The Facetious Nights of Straparola”
The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a 1550 short story collection also known as The Nights of Straparola, is a two-volume collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, it is often called the first European storybook to contain fairy tales and would influence later authors such as Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
More by Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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