Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, author of a famous collection of stories after the style of Boccaccio's “Decameron,” partly borrowed and partly genuine folk-stories, which ranks as an Italian classic, and has been translated into various European languages; flourished in the 16th century.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stranraer * Strap, Hugh