The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1 / / ed. by Don Beecher.
Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (792 p.) |
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