The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]Straparola, Giovanni Francesco
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The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco
Fairy tales -- Italy; Tales -- Italy
Footnote 33:
Pietro Bembo.
Footnote 34:
Told in the dialect of Bergamo.
Footnote 35:
Orig., _e ixi romà co li ma pieni de moschi_.
Footnote 36:
Orig., _con sarevef à di tre penduletti sgonfi de dre_.
Footnote 37:
_i.e._, a famished wolf.
Footnote 38:
Orig., _anch ella no tira le calzi_.
Footnote 39:
Orig., _e dal dichg al fahg se fe le nozzi_.
Footnote 40:
Orig., _una mostazzada si fatta in sol mostaz, che la fe andà
d’inturem_.
Footnote 41:
Orig., _e fag una pellizza de tanti bastonadi, quanti la ne pos mai
portà, e la lassà quasi per morta_.
Footnote 42:
Orig., _che ti romagnis con le ma pieni de moschi_.
Footnote 43:
Orig., _picegamort_.
Footnote 44:
Orig., _anda a segonda_.
Footnote 45:
Orig., _se n’anda a parla a Pilat_.
Footnote 46:
Orig., _schiffare tal scoglio_.
Footnote 47:
Told in the dialect of Treviso.
Footnote 48:
Orig., _chi mal balla, ben solazza_.
Footnote 49:
Orig., _V’ande laldando, e lavando la bocca di fatti nuostri_,.
Footnote 50:
Orig., _in prima el se spellatava con la chiozza_.
Footnote 51:
_Zanchetto_, _zannetto_, a buffoon, a zany.
Footnote 52:
Orig., _e mutò le usate penne_. The use of _penne_ or _piume_ for
_capelli_ is not uncommon. Thus in Dante, “Che riavesse le maschile
penne” (_Inferno_, xx.); “Movendo quell’ oneste piume” (_Purgatorio_,
i.).
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.
● Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last
chapter.
● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
● Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=.
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