 | Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Subjects: Straparola Giovanni Francesco ca. 1480–1557? -- Piacevoli notti; Straparola Giovanni Francesco ca. 1480–1557? -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice; Fairy tales in literature; Magic in literature; Fairy tales -- Italy -- History and criticism; Venice; " Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola."--Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author also of Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. |
