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Identifier:
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1608straparola.pdf
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Collection:
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Once Upon A Time: Historical and Illustrated Fairy Tales
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Title:
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Notte Undecima
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Language Term:
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Italian
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Form:
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electronic
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Digital Origin:
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reformatted digital
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Internet Media Type:
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application/pdf
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Form:
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Illustrated works
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Abstract:
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Although today the fairy tales of France's Charles Perrault and Germany's Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are perhaps better known, the first literary fairy tales published in Europe appeared in Giovanfrancesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti, or The Pleasant Nights (Venice; 2 vols, 1551 and 1553). The Pleasant Nights contains many different types of tales, including realistic novellas, stories about practical jokes, tragic and triumphant love stories, bawdy tales, and animal stories. Some sixteen of these 74 tales are fairy tales. Straparola is the author of Puss-in-Boots, the story of an impoverished boy whose enchanted cat earns him wealth, marriage to a princess, and a kingdom. Among the other fairy tales in The Pleasant Nights, we find a dragon slayer tale; the tale of a prince born in the shape of a pig due to a fairy's curse who regains his human form only after marrying three times; the story of Biancabella or "White Beauty" a princes who undergoes many trials until finally being saved by a fairy; and the a poor girl who acquire a magic doll that poops money and helps her marry a prince. We know very little about the life of Giovanfrancesco Straparola. He most likely was born in Caravaggio, Italy around 1480 and probably died in or near Venice around 1557. Besides his collection of tales, The Pleasant Nights, he wrote a collection of poetry published in 1508. Even his name is a mystery: "Straparola" translates roughly as "too wordy" or "The Babbler". Straparola's The Pleasant Nights was an early modern bestseller reprinted some twenty times in Italy between 1551 and 1620. The 1608 edition displayed here contains charming woodcuts that illustrate key scenes from the tales.
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Type of Resource:
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Text
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Access Condition:
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Material is in the public domain. However the holding institution may assert copyright for the digitized objects, underlying encoded text, selection, indexing, organization, and display of materials; whether in part or as an aggregation to the extent permitted by law.
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Access Condition:
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The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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Access Condition URI:
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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Issuance:
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monographic
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Date Issued:
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1608
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Date Captured:
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2/24/2019
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Subject Topic:
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Fairy tales
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Subject Authority:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046925
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Subject Topic:
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Fables
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Subject Authority:
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046739
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Physical Location:
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University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
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Related Item Type:
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host
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Related Item Identifier:
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Bibliographic number: b3828988x
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Host Book Title:
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tredici piacevolissime notte
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Host Book Name Part:
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco
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Host Book Name Part Date:
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ca. 1480-1557?
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Host Book Name Role Term Text:
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Author
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Host Book Type of Resource:
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text
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Host Book Place Term:
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Venetia
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Host Book Publisher:
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Z. Zanetti
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Host Book Date Issued:
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1608
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Host Book Issuance:
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monographic
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Host Book Extent:
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[1], 309 p., [12] ; 15 cm
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Host Book Note:
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di M. Gio. Francesco Straparola da Carauaggio ... Nuouamente di bellissime figure adornate, & appropriate à ciascheduna fauola
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Host Book Note Type:
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statementOfResponsibility
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Host Book Subject Topic:
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Tales -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
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Host Book Subject Authority:
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lcsh
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Host Book Subject Topic:
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Fairy tales -- Italy
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Host Book Subject Authority:
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lcsh
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Host Book Classification:
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PQ4634.S7 T7 1608
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Host Book Physical Location:
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University of Colorado Libraries
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Host Book Sublocation:
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Special Collections Department
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Identifier ARK:
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https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/9b936s5463qg
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