Copia di un caso notabile interuenuto a un gran gentil'huomo genouese : cosa molto utile da intender et di gran piacere : alli illustrissimi et liberallissimi signori gentilhuomini di Venetia M. Vincenzo Cancelliere da Pistoia, astrologo

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The work Copia di un caso notabile interuenuto a un gran gentil'huomo genouese : cosa molto utile da intender et di gran piacere : alli illustrissimi et liberallissimi signori gentilhuomini di Venetia M. Vincenzo Cancelliere da Pistoia, astrologo represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Copia di un caso notabile interuenuto a un gran gentil'huomo genouese : cosa molto utile da intender et di gran piacere : alli illustrissimi et liberallissimi signori gentilhuomini di Venetia M. Vincenzo Cancelliere da Pistoia, astrologo

Title remainder

cosa molto utile da intender et di gran piacere : alli illustrissimi et liberallissimi signori gentilhuomini di Venetia M. Vincenzo Cancelliere da Pistoia, astrologo

Title variation

• Copia di vn caso notabile intervenvto a vn gran gentil'hvomo genovese
• Copia di un caso notabile intervenuto a un gran gentil'huomo genovese

Creator

• Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?

Contributor

• Comin da Trino, di Monferrato, active 1539-1574
• Cancelliere, Vincenzo, da Pistoia
• Chiesa, Carlo Alberto, 1926-1998

Former owner

• Chiesa, Carlo Alberto, 1926-1998

Printer

• Comin da Trino, di Monferrato, active 1539-1574

Subject

• Fairy tales -- Italy | Venice -- 1550

Genre

• Fairy tales

Language

ita

Summary

Although the work is attributed to one Vincenzo Cancelliere of Pistoia, astrologer, it is actually a plagiarism of the first "novella" of Piacevoli notti by Giovan Francesco Straparola, often considered to be the "founding father of the fairy tale."

Member of

• Piacevoli notti

Cataloging source

CLU

Citation location within source

• CNCE 15200
• I:253
• I:229-230
• no. 151

Citation source

• EDIT 16
• Melzi, G. Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani
• Passano, G. Novellieri italiani in prosa
• Catalogo de' novellieri italiani posseduti dal conte Anton-Maria Borromeo (2a. edizione)

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Straparola's Piacevoli notti, first printed in Venice in 1550 by Orpheo dalla Carta, follows the arrangement of Boccaccio's Decamerone, in which a group of people, fleeing an unhappy situation, are forced to take shelter together and begin telling stories. In Straparola's Notti, the bishop-elect of Lodi, Ottaviano Maria Sforza, and his daughter, Lucretia, are forced to flee Venice for political reasons, and take refuge in a palace on the island of Murano. The bishop and his daughter, in the company of a group of ladies and gentlemen--including Pietro Bembo and his friend Gregorio Casali--gather to dance, sing ballads, pose and solve riddles, and tell stories. Within this scenario, Straparola presents 75 short prose tales, which include classic fairy tales, such as "Beauty and the Beast"; Straparola's own original tale, the now world-famous "Puss in Boots"; romances of chivalry; and stories of intrigue and popular Italian life. See W.G. Waters, "The mysterious Giovan Francesco Straparola, founding father of the fairy tale," in The great fairty tale tradition: from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, ed. by Jack Zipes (NY: Norton, 2001), p. 869-879