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Overview
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.
As a comprehensive critical and historical edition, these volumes contain far more information on the stories than can be found in any existing studies, literary histories, or Italian editions of the work. Donald Beecher provides a lengthy introduction discussing Straparola as an author, the nature of fairy tales and their passage through oral culture, and how this phenomenon provides a new reservoir of stories for literary adaptation. Moreover, the stories all feature extensive commentaries analysing not only their themes but also their fascinating provenances, drawing on thousands of analogue tales going back to ancient Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic stories.
Immensely entertaining and readable, The Pleasant Nights will appeal to anyone interested in fairy tales, ancient stories, and folk creations. Such readers will also enjoy Beecher’s academically solid and erudite commentaries, which unfold in a manner as light and amusing as the stories themselves.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442644274 |
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Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
Publication date: | 10/19/2012 |
Series: | Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library , #2 |
Pages: | 672 |
Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
The Pleasant Nights, Volume II
The Greetings of Giovan Francesco Straparola of Garavaggio 3
[The Nights and Their Fables with Commentaries]
The Sixth Night
VI.1 Two Friends Who Held Their Wives in Common 7
VI.2 Castorio's Welcome Castration 29
VI.3 The Widow's Broken Promise 39
VI.4 Who Will Become Abbess? 47
VI.5 The Virtue of Stones 56
The Seventh Night
VII.1 The Wife, the Courtesan, and the Witch 67
VII.2 Malgherita Spolatina's Death at Sea 93
VII.3 Flogged at the Pope's Court 101
VII.4 Share and Share Alike 113
VII.5 The Three Brothers 123
The Eighth Night
VIII.1 The Three Idle Rogues 149
VIII.2 The Right Handling of Wives 169
VIII.3 The Priest and the Image-Carver's Wife 192
VIII.4 Lattanzio and the Secret Arts of Sorcery 212
VIII.5 The Donkey's Skin and the Doctor's Apprentice 236
VIII.3A The Woes of an Old Gallant 245
VIII.3B The Merchant's Monkey 254
The Ninth Night
IX.1 King Galafro's Vain Precautions 263
IX.2 Rodolino and Violante, or the Broken Hearts 276
IX.3 Francesco Sforza's Narrow Escape 293
IX.4 Papiro Schizza's Pedantry and the Scholar's Revenge 305
IX.5 Of the Bergamasques and the Florentines 318
The Tenth Night
X.1 Madonna Veronica Recovers Her Stolen Jewels 333
X.2 The Lion and the Ass Named 'Brancaleone' 343
X.3 Gesarino the Dragon Slayer 361
X.4 The Diabolical Testament of Andrigetto di Valsabbia 394
X.5 Rosolino's Confession for Love of His Son 406
The Eleventh Night
XI.1 Costantino and His Wonderful Cat 417
XI.2 The Grateful Dead, or Bertuccio and Tarquinia 446
XI.3 Wind, Water, and Shame, or the Gluttony of Dom Pomporio 475
XI.4 The Buffoon and the Stolen Veal 483
XI.5 Frate Bigoccio Takes a Wife and Leaves Her 491
The Twelfth Night
XII.1 How Florio's Wife Cures His Jealousy 503
XII.2 The Simpleton's Blackmail 508
XII.3 The Language of Animals and Pozzuolo's Wife 515
XII.4 Of the Sons Who Disobeyed Their Father's Testament 527
XII.5 How Pope Sixtus IV Made His Servant Rich 532
The Thirteenth Night
XIII.1 The Huntsman and the Madman 549
XIII.2 Diego, the Hens, and the Carmelite Friar 558
XIII.3 On the Liberality of Spaniards and Germans 569
XIII.4 The Servant, the Fly, and the Master 573
XIII.5 Vilio Brigantello, the Robber, and the Fateful Sack 584
XIII.6 How Lucilio Finds the 'Good Day' 589
XIII.7 Giorgio Hales His Master before the Tribunal 604
XIII.8 Midnight Feast and Famine 611
XIII.9 Of Filomena the Hermaphrodite Nun 617
XIII.10 The Judgments of Cesare, Doctor of Laws 630
XIII.11 The Novice's Night in the Barn 638
XIII.12 The Healing of King Guglielmo 648
XIII.13 How Pietro Rizzato Finds a Treasure and Becomes a Miser 655