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“Of a truth I confess they [the tales] are not mine, and if I said otherwise I should lie, but nevertheless I have faithfully set them down according to the manner in which they are told…”Le XIII Piacevoli Notti… Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1480- ca. 1557) In Venetia:...

 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIIIThe Poems of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1939 PR2841 A2 K5 1939Edited by George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature,...