Tredici piacevolissime notti, Le.
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 printcd at the Bcston Ss Public T theary. Tune 9, 1923. M6497 — T.r. — Shakespeare, Wham. Taming of the shrew. Sources. — Shakespeare, William. Merry wives of Windsor. Sources.