Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Address to the Reader xiii
5. An Introduction to Fairy Tales and the Boccaccian Literary Model
6. An Introduction to Fairy Tales 3
7. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (begun circa 1350) 13
8. Fairy Tales in Italy: Early Authors, Theorists, and Critics
9. The Literary Fairy Tale in Italy 25
10. Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (1551, 1553) 41
11. Andrea Calmo, “Letter to Signora Frondosa” (1556) 47
12. Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on Games That Are Played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) 55
13. Giambattista Basile, The Tale of Tales (Dedication for Day 1, 1634) 61
14. Girolamo Brusoni, The Glories of the Incogniti, Or the Illustrious Men of the Academy of the “Unknown Gentlemen” (1647) 67
15. Pompeo Sarnelli, Foreword to Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone (1674) and Foreword to An Outing to Posillipo (1684) 71
16. Bartolomeo Lupardi, “Dedicatory Letter to Signor Giuseppe Spada” (1679) 81
17. Maddelena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The Gossip on the Chair (1742) 85
18. Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan Dialect ([1779]) 89
19. Luigi Serio, The Fart. Response to On the Neapolitan Dialect (1780) 95
20. Fairy Tales and Fairyland Fictions in France: Establishing the Canon
21. Fairy Tales and Fairyland Fictions in France 101
22. Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the Tale of Donkeyskin and That of the Ridiculous Wishes. Fourth Edition (1695) 113
23. Charles Perrault, Tales of My Mother Goose (1695) 125
24. Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon, Diverse Works (1696) 127
25. Catherine Bernard, “Prince Rosebush” and “Ricky of the Tuft” in Inès of Cordova: A Spanish Novel (1696) 155
26. Mercure galant, Extract from The History of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) 159
27. Charles Perrault, Histories, or Tales of Past Times, with Morals (1697) License 163
28. [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or Tales of Past Times ( January 1697) 165
29. Marie-Catherine1 d’Aulnoy, Tales of the Fairies (1697)2 and New Tales, or The Fashionable Fairies (1698) 167
30. Charlotte Rose de La Force, “Notice Concerning the Following Story” in The Tales of the Tales (1698) 195
31. Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and Allegorical Histories (1699) 199
32. 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
33. Antoine Galland, Thousand and One Nights. Arab Tales Translated into French (1704–1717) 221
34. Works Cited 229
35. Contributors 243
36. Index 245