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The enchanted boot : Italian fairy tales and their tellers / edited, translated and introduced by Nancy L. Canepa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--Italy.
- Fairy tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Fairy-Tale Motifs in Early Italian Literature
- 1. Anonymous
- Liombruno
- 2. Girolamo Morlini: (second half of fifteenth century)
- The Mother Who Left Her Son to Watch the House (De matre filium domum custoditum reliquit)
- The Brothers Who Wandered through the World and Acquired Wealth (De fratibus qui per orbem pererrando ditati sunt)
- Part II: The Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale in Early Modern Italy
- 1. Giovan Francesco Straparola (ca. 1480-1558)
- King Pig (Galeotto re di Anglia ha uno figliuolo nato porco)
- Crazy Pietro (Pietro Pazzo)
- Biancabella
- Adamantina
- 2. Giambattista Basile (1575-1632)
- The Tale of the Ogre (Lo cunto dell'uerco)
- The Flea (Lo pulece)
- The Cinderella Cat (La gatta cennerentola)
- The Old Woman Who Was Skinned (La vecchia scortecata)
- Petrosinella
- Cagliuso
- The Cockroach, the Mouse, and the Cricket (Lo scarafone, lo sorece e lo grillo)
- Sun, Moon, and Talia (Sole, Luna e Talia)
- Part III: Sleeping Beauty: The Italian Fairy Tale after Basile
- 1. Pompeo Sarnelli (1649-1724)
- The Little Hen (La Gallenella)
- 2. Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806)
- The Love of the Three Oranges (L'Amore delle tre melarance)
- Part IV: The Golden Age of the Italian Fairy Tale
- 1. Laura Gonzenbach (1842-78)
- The Clever Farmer's Daughter (Die kluge Bauerntochter)
- The Bandit Who Had a Witch's Head (Von Räuber, der einen Hexenkopf hatte)
- The Story of Sorfarina (Die Geschichte von Sorfarina)
- The Serpent That Testified in Favor of a Girl (Von der Schlange, die für ein Mädchen sengte)
- The Story of the Courageous Girl (Die Geschichte von dem mutigen Mädchen)
- 2. Giuseppe Pitrè (1841-1916)
- The Story of "It Is Told" (Lu cunto di "Si raccunta")
- The Slave (Lu Scavu)
- Tridicinu.
- The Little Mouse with the Stinky Tail (Lu surciteddu cu la coda fitusa)
- The Ogress (La Mammadràa)
- Giufà Tales
- 3. Carlo Collodi (1826-90)
- From Le avventure di Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
- 4. Luigi Capuana (1839-1925)
- Ranocchino
- Cecina
- The Black Egg (L'uovo nero)
- 5. Emma Perodi (1850-1918)
- The Enchantress (L'incantatrice)
- 6. Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)
- Our Lady of Good Counsel (Nostra signora del Buon Consiglio)
- Fairy Tale (Fiaba)
- 7. Guido Gozzano (1883-1916)
- The Silver Hare (La lepre d'argento)
- Piumadoro and Piombofino (Piumadoro e Piombofino)
- Part V: Italo Calvino's Fiabe Italiane (Italian Folktales)
- Italo Calvino (1923-85)
- Dauntless Little John (Giovannin senza paura)
- The Crab Prince (Il principe granchio)
- Bellinda and the Monster (Bellinda e il mostro)
- Buffalo Head (Testa di bufala)
- Apple Girl (La ragazza mela)
- Bella Venezia
- The False Grandmother (La finta nonna)
- The Forest on the Superhighway (Il bosco sull'autostrada)
- Part VI: Something Old, Something New: Fairy Tales for Our Times
- 1. Gianni Rodari (1920-80)
- Nino and Nina (Nino e Nina)
- The House of Three Buttons (La casa dei tre bottoni)
- Clever Pinocchio (Pinocchio il furbo)
- From The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories (Grammatica della fantasia. Introduzione all'arte di inventare storie)
- 2. Giorgio Manganelli (1922-90)
- Eighty-One (Ottantuno)
- 3. Roberto Piumini (1947-)
- The Prisoner Cook (Il cuoco prigioniero)
- 4. Luigi Malerba (1927-2008)
- Pinocchio in Boots (Pinocchio con gli stivali)
- 5. Dacia Maraini (1936-)
- A Family in a Shoe (Una famiglia in una scarpa)
- Appendix: ATU Tale Types
- Selected Bibliography
- Credits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814349212
- 0814349218
- OCLC:
- 1346358559
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