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Telefono 39 06 58461 Fax 39 06 5810788
6pm - Lecture
Lecture Room Most scholars of folklore and fairy tales are unaware of the fact that two Italian writers Gian Franco Straparola and Giambattista Basile laid the foundation for the development of the literary fairy tale in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. They tend to credit Charles Perrault, Mme D'Aulnoy and other writers for having forged the fairy tale in the 1690s. However, Straparola's The Pleasant Nights (1550-53) and Basile's The Story of Stories or The Pentameron (1634-36) were innovative works that had a great impact not only on the French writers of the 1690s but also later on the Brothers Grimm. Prof. Jack Zipes is Director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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