The Pleasant Nights by Straparola, Giovanni Francesco -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

Appendices

Illustrations Bibliography THE PLEASANT NIGHTS, VOLUME I

The Greetings from Orfeo dalla Carta

The First Night

I.1 The Disobedience of Salardo I.2 Cassandrino the Master-Thief I.3 How Scarpacifico Swindles the Swindlers I.4 Doralice and Her Incestuous Father, Tebaldo I.5 Polissena and the Priest

The Second Night

II.1 The Pig Prince II.2 Filenio Sisterno’s Revenge upon the Three Ladies II.3 Carlo da Rimini among the Pots and Pans II.4 The Devil’s Marriage to Silvia Ballastro II.5 The Beating of Simplicio de’ Rossi

The Third Night

III.1 Pietro the Fool and the Magic Fish III.2 Livoretto and His Wonderful Horse III.3 Biancabella, or the Damsel and the Snake III.4 Fortunio, the King’s Daughter, and the Mermaid III.5 Isotta and the Cowherd Travaglino

The Fourth Night

IV.1 Costanza, the Girl-Knight IV.2 Erminione and Filenia, or the Jealous Husband Outwitted IV.3 Dancing Water, Singing Apple, and the Truth-Speaking Bird IV.4 The Physician’s Wife IV.5 Flamminio in Seeking Death Discovers Life

The Fifth Night

V.1 Guerrino and the Wild Man of the Woods V.2 Adamantina’s Astonishing Doll V.3 The Three Hunchbacks V.4 Tia Rabboso, or the Ruses of an Adulterous Wife V.5 Madonna Modesta’s Shoes

Footnotes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5