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    Giovanni Francesco "Gianfrancesco" Straparola, also known as Zoan or Zuan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio (ca. 1485–1558), was an Italian writer of...
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    collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, it is significant as often...
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    "Lucky Costantino") by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, included in The Facetious Nights of Straparola (c. 1550–1553), in which the cat is...
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  • Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola. Madame d'Aulnoy wrote a French, also literary...
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    King", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola around 1550. Variants of the tale are known...
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  • an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. Italo Calvino included a Piedmontese variant...
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  • appeared in an abbreviated version published by Giovanni Brevio in 1545. Giovanni Francesco Straparola included his own version as the fourth story of...
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  • Joe M. Aguilar Latifa Ouaou Inspired by the character from: Giovanni Francesco Straparola Henry Jackman DWA Glendale DreamWorks Dedicated Unit Story by:...
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    adventure. During the Renaissance, Giovanni Francesco Straparola wrote and published The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550–1555), a collection of stories...
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    16th and 17th centuries, with The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Giovanni Francesco Straparola (Italy, 1550 and 1553), which contains many fairy tales...
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  • an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola (written between 1550 and 1555). A king married...
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    than any abstract ideal. Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, who wrote The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550–55) and the Pentamerone...
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  • including The Facetious Nights of Straparola (Facétieuses Nuits, 1573) of Straparole (Giovanni Francesco Straparola), the Philosophie fabuleuse (1577)...
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  • Italy Giovanni Francesco Straparola (first version), Charles Perrault The Facetious Nights of Straparola 545B The Pig King Italy Giovanni Francesco Straparola...
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  • an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 707: "The...
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    loosely based on his fairy tale collection. Charles Perrault Giovanni Francesco Straparola Brothers Grimm Coppola, Emmanuele (1998). Giovan Battista Basile...
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    Afanasyev Brothers Grimm Charles Deulin Giambattista Basile Giovanni Francesco Straparola, widely regarded as the first person to compile a collection...
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    interest in the literary fairy tale. The tradition begun with Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile and developed by the Charles Perrault...
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  • an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson type 502 titled "The...
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  • (meowing sound effects, uncredited) Inspired by Puss in Boots by Giovanni Francesco Straparola     Giambattista Basile     Charles Perrault James Bond by Ian...
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  • speaking bird. The story resembles Ancilotto, King of Provino, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette, the story of the...
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    a literary version by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his work The Facetious Nights of Straparola. Child ballad number 216 can be read...
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    Her source for the tale was Ancilotto, King of Provino, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 707 The dancing water...
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    children's magazine by 1766. In Italy, Giovanni Francesco Straparola released The Facetious Nights of Straparola in the 1550s. Called the first European...
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    d'Aulnoy) Costanza / Costanzo (Italian literary fairy tale by Giovanni Francesco Straparola) The Three Crowns (Italian literary fairy tale by Giambattista...
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    An Italian parallel appeared in The Facetious Nights of it: Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1553), where the Wolf, Fox and Ass are on their way to Rome...
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  • an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. This tale plays off a long tradition of...
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    Silmarillion. During the Renaissance, Giovanni Francesco Straparola wrote and published The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a collection of stories, many of...
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  • Satyrs appear in the Italian fairy tale Costanza / Costanzo by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. The protagonist, Costanzo, catches a satyr for the king. The...
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  • of Exeter. The Facetious Nights of Straparola, a story collection by the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola originally published in 1550–1553...
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