John of Capua
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Straparola has borrowed copiously from preceding authors. Thus the 3d of 1st night was probably taken from John of Capua's "Directorium," and originally derived from the Hitopadesa. "--History of Fiction (1814) by John Colin Dunlop |
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Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1485?-1558) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector, best-known for his collection of stories in two volumes called The Facetious Nights or The Pleasant Nights. This collection includes some of the first known printed versions of fairy tales in Europe, as they are known today.
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John of Capua (fl. 1262-1269) was an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity, and a translator. He translated Rabbi Joel's Hebrew version of Kalilah wa-Dimnah into Latin under the title Directorium Vitae Humanae. His translation was the source from which that work became so widely spread in almost all European languages. It was edited by Joseph Derenbourg (Paris, 1887). John of Capua also translated Maimonides' Dietary and Ibn Zuhr's (Avenzoar's) Al-Taisir, on diseases.
