The Pleasant Nights: Volume 40
(Book #40 in the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series Series)
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In Giovan Francesco Straparola's The Pleasant Nights , a group of men and women gather together in a villa on the Venetian island of Murano during Carnival to sing songs, tell tales, and solve riddles. A sixteenth-century bestseller, The Pleasant Nights is today a fundamental text for European folk and fairy tale studies, for alongside triumphal and tragic love stories, comical tales of practical jokes, and accounts of witty retorts, Straparola (1480?...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0866985360
ISBN13:9780866985369
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Iter Press
Length:501 Pages
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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