The pomegranates and other modern Italian fairy tales / edited by Cristina Mazzoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazzoni, Cristina, 1965- editor.

Series:

Oddly Modern Fairy Tales ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shapeshifting.

Fairy tales--Italy.

Fairy tales.

Folk literature, Italian--Translations into English.

Folk literature, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations

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 timeThe 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Tales

Domenico Comparetti

Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini)

Yorick (Pietro Coccoluto Ferrigni)

Luigi Capuana

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Grazia Deledda

Emma Perodi

Cordelia (Virginia Tedeschi Treves)

Guido Gozzano

Bibliography

Biographical Notes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-691-19978-7

OCLC:

1259320394