The pomegranates and other modern Italian fairy tales / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Cristina Mazzoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazzoni, Cristina, 1965- editor, translator.

Series:

Oddly modern fairy tales

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Italy.

Fairy tales.

Folk literature, Italian.

Italy.

Shapeshifting.

Folk literature, Italian--Translations into English.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

vii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most appearing here in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy's political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time.The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig's body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors.Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The king's son, a pig (1875); The pomegranates (1875); Bad pumpkin (1875) / Domenico Comparetti

Donkey skin (1876) / Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini)

The fairies (1891) / Yorick (Pietro Coccoluto Ferrigni)

Sunbeam (1882); Golden feather (1894) / Luigi Capuana

The doves (1886); The song of the bloodied ricotta (1886); The Borea's daughter (1914) / Gabriele D'Annunzio

Our Lady of Good Counsel (1892); The three talismans (1893) / Grazia Deledda

The she-mule of Abbess Sofia (1893); Lavella's stepmother (1893); The Madonna's veil (1893) / Emma Perodi

Fiery Eyes (1909); Prince Valorous's doll (1909) / Cordelia (Virginia Tedeschi Treves)

Goldenfeather and Finestlead (1909); The three talismans (1910); The dance of the gnomes (1910) / Guido Gozzano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780691199788

0691199787

OCLC:

1240575514

Publisher Number:

99988443479