Le piacevoli notti

The Facetious Nights

Author

Giovanni Francesco Straparola

Language

Italian

Year

1550

Country

Italy

Genre

Short Story Collection / Tales

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The Facetious Nights of Straparola, also known as The Nights of Straparola, is a two-volume collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; it would influence later fairy-tale authors like Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.