Tales Told By Bulls & Wolves (eBook)

Clive Gilson (Herausgeber)

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2019 | First
464 Seiten
Clive Gilson (Verlag)
978-1-913500-60-3 (ISBN)

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Italian literature arguably began after the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Latin literature was, and still is, highly influential in the world, with numerous writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, such as Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Livy.Much later, following in the footsteps of Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Italian Renaissance authors produced a number of important works such as Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, who wrote The Facetious Nights of Straparola (15501555) and the Pentamerone (1634) respectively, printed some of the first known versions of fairy tales in Europe, examples of which appear in this collection.Later still the Italian Romantic movement coincided with the Risorgimento, the patriotic movement that brought Italy political unity and freedom from foreign domination. Italian writers embraced Romanticism in the early 19th century. The time of Italy's rebirth was heralded by the poets Vittorio Alfieri, Ugo Foscolo, and Giacomo Leopardi. The works by Alessandro Manzoni, the leading Italian Romantic, are a symbol of the Italian political struggle.As ever it's been a delightful journey wandering through Italy's famous cities and grand histories as I put this small collection together. I hope that you enjoy these stories too.

Inhalt

PREFACE

A TUSCAN SNOW-WHITE

HOW THE ASS BECAME A MAN AGAIN

FILAGRANATA

THE STORY OF CICCU

MONTE ROCHETTINO

THE THREE LOVE-ORANGES

HOW THE BEGGAR BOY BECAME COUNT PIRO

TERESINA, LUISA, AND THE BEAR

PALOMBELLETTA

THE STORY OF BENSURDATU

A TUSCAN BLUEBEARD

LA CENORIENTOLA

HOW THE HERMIT HELPED TO WIN THE KING’S DAUGHTER

TASSA

THE KING WHO GOES OUT TO DINNER

THE KING WHO WOULD HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WIFE

PADRE ULIVO

THE POT OF MARJORAM

THE FROG

THE SOUND AND SONG OF THE LOVELY SIBYL

MARIA WOOD

THE CUNNING SHOEMAKER

THE SNAKE’S BOUDOIR

THE TWO HUNCHBACKED BROTHERS

POMO AND THE GOBLIN HORSE

THE DARK KING

A TALE FROM THE BORDERLAND

SCIOCCOLONE

THE PHANTOM BRIDE

SIGNOR LATTANZIO

CYPRESSES AND OLIVES, AN INTERLUDE

HOW CAJUSSE WAS MARRIED

THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI

DON GIOVANNI

LEGEND OF THE LANTERNS

THE DEAD MAN IN THE OAK TREE

THE GOBLIN OF LA VIA DEL CORNO

THE DEAD MAN’S LETTER

THE TWO FAIRIES OF THE WELL - A LEGEND OF THE VIA CALZAIOLI

THE WHITE SOUL

THE ENCHANTED COW OF LA VIA VACCHERECCIA

THE WHITE SERPENT

LA VIA DELLE BELLE DONNE

THE PROCESSION OF VELLETRI

CANNETELLA

THE MUNIFICENCE OF PRINCE BORGHESE

CATHERINE AND HER DESTINY

THE BEAUTIFUL ENGLISHWOMAN

CUPID AND PSYCHE

BELLACUCCIA

VIRGILIUS THE SORCERER

ASS OR PIG

THE GOAT FACED GIRL

THE BAD TEMPERED QUEEN

DON GIOVANNI DE LA FORTUNA

THE BOOBY

HOW BRADAMANTE CONQUERED THE WIZARD

DOCTOR GRILLO

HOW WILLIAM OF PALERMO WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE WEREWOLF

NINA

THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WERWOLF

THE COUNTESS’S CAT

HISTORICAL NOTES

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Tales from the World's Firesides - Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Tales from the World's Firesides - Europe
• Reihe/Serie: Tales from the World's Firesides - Europe
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Schlagworte: Fairy tales • Fantasy • Folklore • Italia • Italian • Italy • Legends • Myths • Sagas • Storytelling
• ISBN-10: 1-913500-60-8 / 1913500608
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913500-60-3 / 9781913500603