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Contents Acknowledgments vii Address to the Reader xiii I An Introduction to Fairy Tales and the Boccaccian Literary Model 1. An Introduction to Fairy Tales 3 2. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (begun circa 1350) 13 II Fairy Tales in Italy: Early Authors, Theorists, and Critics 3. The Literary Fairy Tale in Italy 25 4. Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (1551, 1553) 41 5. Andrea Calmo, “Letter to Signora Frondosa” (1556) 47 6. Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on Games That Are Played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) 55 7. Giambattista Basile, The Tale of Tales (Dedication for Day 1, 1634) 61 8. Girolamo Brusoni, The Glories of the Incogniti, Or the Illustrious Men of the Academy of the “Unknown Gentlemen” (1647) 67 9. Pompeo Sarnelli, Foreword to Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone (1674) and Foreword to An Outing to Posillipo (1684) 71 vi / Contents 10. Bartolomeo Lupardi, “Dedicatory Letter to Signor Giuseppe Spada” (1679) 81 11. Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The Gossip on the Chair (1742) 85 12. Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan Dialect (1779) 89 13. Luigi Serio, The Fart. Response to On the Neapolitan Dialect (1780) 95 III Fairy Tales in France: Establishing the Canon 14. Fairy Tales and Fairyland Fictions in France 101 15. Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the Tale of Donkeyskin and That of the Ridiculous Wishes. Fourth Edition (1695) 113 16. Charles Perrault, Tales of My Mother Goose (1695) 125 17. Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse Works (1696) 127 18. Catherine Bernard, “Prince Rosebush” and “Ricky of the Tuft” in Inès of Cordova: A Spanish Novel (1696) 155 19. Mercure galant, Extract from The History of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) 159 20. Charles Perrault, Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1697) License 163 21. [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or Tales of Past Times (January 1697) 165 22. Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Tales of the Fairies (1697) and New Tales, or The Fashionable Fairies (1698) 167 23. Charlotte Rose de La Force, “Notice Concerning the Following Story” in The Tales of the Tales (1698) 195 24. Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and Allegorical Histories (1699) 199 25. Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699) 207 26. Antoine Galland, Thousand and One Nights. Arab Tales Translated into French (1704–1717) 221 Works Cited 229 Contributors 243 Index 245 ...

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