Table of Contents

Table of Tales xiii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 1
The Plesant Nights
Volume One: Nights One to Five 45
Volume Two: Nights Six to Thirteen 257
Appendix 469
Bibliography 477
Index 487

About the Author

Suzanne Magnanini is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile (University of Toronto Press, 2008).

Reviews

Suzanne Magnanini offers a profound and interesting commentary on the significance of Straparola’s Piacevoli notti. Her scholarship is superb, her remarks are judicious and insightful, and her command of history and literary developments of the Renaissance period is comprehensive, drawing on fascinating parallels with the works of many other important authors, including the French salonnières, and also with developments in science and religion. 

Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre