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Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
- Title
- Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
- Author
- Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
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- Description
- 156 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved "Puss in Boots," and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city."
- "With literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in the social history of Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? > Homes and haunts > Venice
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557?
- Fairy tales in literature
- Magic in literature
- Fairy tales > Italy > History and criticism
- Venice (Italy) > Intellectual life > 16th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Restoration and Rise -- 2. Ragged Poverty and the Promise of Magic -- 3. A Possible Biography for Zoan Francesco Straparola Da Caravaggio -- 4. Straparola at His Desk -- 5. Straparola's Little Books and Their Lasting Legacy.
- ISBN
- 0812236807 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002020425
- OCLC
- 49873331
- SCSB-11696162
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library