Italian Popular Tales

With the re‐release of Thomas Frederick Crane’s Italian Popular Tales, anglophone readers have another chance to deepen their knowledge of Italian popular literature. The work of US scholar and former professor in romance languages at Cornell University, Thomas Frederick Crane, this collection played a significant role in developing knowledge of Italian folk literature in North America. Rachel Harriet Busk played a similar role in nineteenth century Britain. ABC‐Clio have recently reproduced Crane’s 1885 publication as part of their Classic Folk and Fairy Tales series. Both the series and the new volume are edited and introduced by Jack Zipes, a...