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STRAPAROLA, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO. Le Tredici Piacevolissime Notti. Woodcut device on title and 65 text illustrations. 309, [7] leaves. 8vo, 154x97 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/4 leather gilt; old inscription on title verso, showing through on recto, scattered stains, M3 torn and restored in upper outer corner affecting a few words, Oo1 torn along outer margin without text loss. Venice: Zanetto Zanetti, 1608
Popular collection of novelle set within a frame-story, first published in 1550-53, containing prototypical versions of Beauty and the Beast, Puss in Boots, and other well-known folk tales, and also a source for Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
