Giovanni Francesco Straparola

The Merry Nights of Straparola

The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Robert Armin

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The Italian Taylor, And His Boy

The Nights of Straparola

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 from Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile. While his given name is likely to have been "Giovanni Francesco," the last name of "Straparola" is not plausible. It is not typical of a family name of that time and place, and the literal meaning of it, "babbler," seems a likely nickname for a writer. Straparola's main work is the collection Le Piacevoli Potti (published in English as The Nights of Straparola or The Facetious Nights of Straparola). It was first published in Italy between 1550-53. Modelled on Il Decamerone, it has participants of a 13-night party in the island of Murano, near Venice, tell each other stories that vary from bawdy to fantastic. It contains the first known written versions of many fairy tales.

The Facetious Nights of Straparola (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola of Caravaggio

Les facétieuses nuits

Les facécieuses Nuictz

Donald Beecher

This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text.

The Pleasant Nights

Приятные ночи

Giovanni Francesco Straparola

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