Fairy godfather
Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition
by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition
2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Fairy godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition
2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.
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