La novellaja fiorentina / Fiabe e novelline stenografate in Firenze dal dettato popolare

The collection presents popular Florentine tales and short novellas recorded from oral dictation and offered largely in vernacular phrasing. Each episode is accompanied by extensive apparatus: numerous footnotes and postilles gathered at chapter ends, long comparative excerpts from other sources, and occasional philological remarks. A prefatory dedication explains the compiler’s deliberate choice to preserve spoken diction rather than stylistically revise it. The volume blends newly recorded items with material drawn from other regional collections to enable variant comparison and to provide contextual citations and observations that expand on the core narratives.