The Facetious Nights of Straparola

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The Facetious Nights of Straparola (

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
.

History

The Facetious Nights of Straparola was first published in

Index of Prohibited Books.[1]

The work was modeled on Boccaccio's

frame narrative and novellas, but it took an innovative approach by also including folk and fairy tales.[1] In the frame narrative, participants of a party on the island of Murano, near Venice, tell each other stories that vary from bawdy to fantastic.[3] The narrators are mostly women, while the men, among whose ranks are included historical men of letters such as Pietro Bembo and Bernardo Cappello, listen.[1] The 74 original tales are told over 13 nights, five tales are told each night except the eighth (six tales) and the thirteenth (thirteen tales).[1] Songs and dances begin each night, and the nights end with a riddle or enigma.[1] The tales include folk and fairy-tales (about 15); Boccaccio-like novellas with themes of trickery and intrigue; and tragic and heroic stories.[1]

The 15 fairy tales were influential with later authors, some were the first recorded instances of now-famous stories, like "

Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–15).[1]

Fairy tales

Fairy tales that originally appeared in Nights of Straparola, with later adaptations by

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.[4]

Adaptations
ID Nights of Straparola d'Aulnoy Basile Brothers Grimm others Notes[a]
1.2 Cassandrino The Master Thief [1]
1.3 Pre Scarpacifico Little Farmer [1]
1.4 Tebaldo and Doralice The Bear All-Fur or All-Kinds-of-Fur Donkeyskin (Charles Perrault) [1][b]
2.1 The Pig King Prince Marcassin Hans My Hedgehog [1]
3.1 Crazy Peter The Dolphin Peruonto Simple Hans [1]
3.2 Livoretto The Story of Pretty Goldilocks Corvetto Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful [6][7][8][9]
3.3 Biancabella and the Snake Penta of the Chopped-off Hands and The Two Little Pizzas [1]
3.4 Fortunio The Nixie of the Mill-Pond [1]
4.1 Costanza / Costanzo Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné How Six Made Their Way in the World [1]
4.3 Ancilotto, King of Provino Princess Belle-Etoile The Three Little Birds The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird (Thomas Frederick Crane);
The Green Bird (Carlo Gozzi)		 [1]
5.1 Guerrino and the Savage Man
Iron Hans
 [1]
5.2 Adamantina The Goose The Golden Goose [1]
7.5 The Three Brothers The Five Sons The Four Skillful Brothers [1]
8.5 Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi The Thief and His Master [1]
10.3 Cesarino di Berni The Merchant The Two Brothers [1][10]
11.1
Costantino Fortunato
 Cagliuso Puss in Boots (Charles Perrault) [1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Indicates sources which draw a connection between Straparola and the other folklorists for the given tale(s).
  2. Aarne-Thompson Index, separated this tale under a new type: ATU 510B*, "The Princess in the Chest", wherein the princess hides inside a closet or lantern to escape from an unwanted suitor.[5]

References

  1. ^
    Greenwood Press
    , 2008, pages 926–27.
  2. ISBN 0-19-211559-6 See page 20. The claim for earliest fairy-tale is still debated, see for example Jan M. Ziolkowski, Fairy tales from before fairy tales: the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies, University of Michigan Press, 2007. Ziolkowski examines Egbert of Liège's Latin beast poem Fecunda Ratis (The Richly Laden Ship, c. 1022/24), the earliest known version of "Little Red Riding Hood". Further info: Little Red Pentecostal Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
    , Peter J. Leithart, July 9, 2007.
  3. ISBN 0-393-97636-X
  4. ISBN 9781442699519
    .
  5. ISBN 978-951-41-0963-8
    .
  6. ISBN 9783110317633
    .
  7. ProQuest 1922870374
    .
  8. Project MUSE 544012
    .
  9. ProQuest 196422641
    .
  10. ISBN 9781442699533
    .

Further reading

  • Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

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