Straparola, Gianfrancesco
- Straparola, Gianfrancesco
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▪ Italian writer
born c. 1480, , Caravaggio, duchy of Milan [Italy]
died after 1557
Italian author of one of the earliest and most important collections of traditional tales.
Straparola's
Piacevoli notti (1550–53;
The Nights of Straparola) contains 75 novellas (short prose tales) that were later used as source material by William Shakespeare, Molière, and others; it introduced into European literature 20 folktales, among them “Beauty and the Beast” and “Puss in Boots.” Straparola's tales, drawn from many sources, soon became famous throughout Europe. Using a technique borrowed from Boccaccio's
Decameron, Straparola set his stories within a frame. Each one is told on a successive night by a party of men and women relaxing at Murano, a suburb of Venice. Little is known of Straparola's personal life.
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Universalium.
2010.
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