Storia favolosa di Stefano (S)

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The Storia favolosa di Stefano represents one of the Italian redactions of the Seven Sages that has usually been designated as part of the Version A tradition. (D'Agostino (2022) places the Storia alongside other anomalous Italian texts, including the Storia di Stefano and Erasto, as distinct from the other Version A redactions; however, historically scholarship has usually grouped it alongside the Libro dei Sette Savj (A) and the Italian Prose (V).)

Like Italian Prose (V), the Storia replaces the 6th story, Puteus, with the story Mercator - however, unlike the text edited by Varnhagen, the Storia then re-inserts Puteus later in the text in the position usually occupied by Inclusa. This latter change in the position of Puteus is identical to that found most of the I (Versio Italico) redactions, indicating the 'non solidali' nature of the version, according to D'Agostino (2022). Additionally, like many of the I (Versio Italico) texts, the Storia gives the prince's name as 'Stefano' - a distinguishing feature that prompts Runte et al to group this text with the 'Stefano'-group of Italian texts (including the closely related Storia di Stefano) rather than the Version A redactions.

The Storia exists in one manuscript, a fifteenth-century text in Veneto dialect.

Wikely notes that in this version, as well as in the Storia di Stefano, the empress is motivated not by love of the prince, but by desire to protect her own future children's inheritance, and that she does so through magic: the dire fate that will befall the prince if he should speak is not only foretold through the stars, but brought about by the stepmother's magic-working (p. 15).

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Tradition and Lineage
Branch of the tradition	Seven Sages of Rome
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Recorded secondary versions

A (Seven Sages) Dutch Version A Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Group U Group V Group W Group X Group Y Group Z Gaelic Version A German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus Italian Version A Italian Prose (V) Libro dei Sette Savj (A) Storia favolosa di Stefano (S) Latin Version A Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus Middle English Version A Midland Version Y Group Northern English Southern English Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction A Old Swedish Redaction B Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A Middle Welsh Version A

Connected manuscripts
Manuscript Language Location Date of Production Padua Biblioteca Civica C.M. 304/6 Italian Padua, Biblioteca Civica 1460/06/18

Language and Composition
Original language of version	Italian
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Place of composition	Novigrad, Croatia
Date of composition	1401 - 1460
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Source for date of composition	D'Agostino (2022), Cesari (1896)

Modern Scholarship and Editions
Modern research literature	Bozzoli (1997), Bozzoli (1999), D'Agostino (2022), Cesari (1896), D'Ancona (1864), Varnhagen (1881), Giannetti (1996), Bianchi (2014-2015), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Wikeley (1983)
Modern Editions	Bozzoli, Storia favolosa di Stefano (1999)

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Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Has Short Title Has Sequence Number Has Narrator Has Name Variation Arbor – The Tree 1 Empress   Canis – The Faithful Dog 2 Bancillas Benzilas Aper – The Boar and the Fruit 3 Empress   Medicus – The Doctor 4 Anxilles Ansiles Gaza – The Treasure 5 Empress   Mercator 6 Lentulus Letelus Senescalcus – The Seneschal 7 Empress   Tentamina – The Test 8 Malquidras Malchidas Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels 9 Empress   Avis – The Bird 10 Caton Chato Sapientes – The Wise Men 11 Empress   Vidua – The Widow 12 Jesse Pesem Roma – Rome Beseiged 13 Empress   Puteus – The Well 14 Arcius Araus Copy Embedded Stories Copy Embedded Stories × Select Target Page: Close Process

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