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Giovan Francesco Straparola’s Piacevoli Notti (The Pleasant Nights) holds surprises when it comes to magic. The kinds of magic that Straparola introduced into his 1550s tale collection, the ways in which he did so, and his apparent attitudes toward magic are unanticipated, as is the disjunction between Straparola’s magic and that documented in studies of contemporary popular magic.1
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© 2014 Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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Bottigheimer, R.B. (2014). The Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic: Straparola’s Early Modern Pleasant Nights . In: Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380883_7
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