Giovanni Francesco Straparola

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born c. 1480
Died c. 1557
Activity c. 1500-c. 1550

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Poet
Prose writer

Resources

Since the early days of the Middle Ages, the literary annals have reflected a continuous and actually growing interest in storytelling, whether in verse or in prose, whether in Latin or in the various vernaculars. This tradition might have been connected with the Indian/Persian collection of tales, the famous Panchatantra (ca. 200 B.C.E.) or the later Arabic One Thousand and One Nights, but we cannot yet tell the direct passage of those collections of tales to medieval Europe. At any rate, in the early twelfth century, the Spanish Jew Petrus Alfonsi, who had converted to Christianity, published his Disciplina clericalis. This was followed, just to highlight the major steps in this global process, by the German …

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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Giovanni Francesco Straparola". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 August 2022 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14946, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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