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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12625780.
- catalog coverage "Venice (Italy) Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.".
- catalog extent "156 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812236807 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog spatial "Venice (Italy) Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog subject "853/.409 21".
- catalog subject "Fairy tales Italy History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fairy tales in literature.".
- catalog subject "Magic in literature.".
- catalog subject "PQ4634.S7 P523 2002".
- catalog subject "Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? Homes and haunts Italy Venice.".
- catalog subject "Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? Piacevoli notti.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".