The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Jules Garnier, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, W.G. Waters

The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Jules Garnier, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, W.G. Waters

666 pages • first pub 1550 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
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Giovanni Francesco (or Gianfrancesco) Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector. He has been termed the progenitor of the literary form of the fairy tale in Europe. Charles Perrault borrowed most of his stories fr...

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