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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco,  -1557? **G.78.30 Le tredici piacevolissime notti di M. Gio. Francesco Straparola da
Carauaggio: divise in dve libri: nuouamente di bellissime figure adornate, & appropriate 4 ciascheduna fauola. Con la tauola di tutto quello, che in esse si contengono.
— In Venetia, M.DC.VIII. Appresso Zanetto Zanetti. 309, (7) ff. Wood-cuts. Printer’s devices. 14% cm., in 8s. Several stories in this volume are considered to have been sources for part of the plot of Shakespeare’s Taming of the shrew and Merry wives of Windsor.
This card was printed at the Beston Public J thrary. Tune 9, 1923. M6497 — T.r. — Shakespeare, Willtam. Taming of the shrew. Sources. — Shakespeare, William. Merry wives of Windsor. Sources.