Italian folktales
(1999, original release: 1980)
By:
Calvino, Italo
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
398.21/CALVINO,I
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., [1999?]
©1980
©1980
DESCRIPTION
xxxii, 763 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780156454896, 0156454890 :, 0156454890, 9780156454896
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of Fiabe italiane
830L
CONTENTS
Dauntless Little John --
Man wreathed in seaweed --
Ship with three decks --
Man who came out only at night --
And seven! --
Body-without-soul --
Money can do everything --
Little shepherd --
Silver nose --
Count's beard --
Little girl sold with the pears --
Snake --
Three castles --
Prince who married a frog --
Parrot --
Twelve oxen --
Crack and Crook --
Canary prince --
King Crin --
Those stubborn souls, the Biellese --
Pot of marjoram --
Billiards player --
Animal speech --
Three cottages --
Peasant astrologer --
Wolf and the three girls --
Land where one never dies --
Devotee of St. Joseph --
Three crones --
Crab prince --
Silent for seven years --
Dead man's palace --
Pome and peel --
Cloven youth --
Invisible grandfather --
King of Denmark's son --
Petie Pete versus Witch Bea-Witch --
Quack, quack! Stick to my back! --
Happy man's shirt --
One night in paradise --
Jesus and St. Peter in Friuli --
Magic ring --
Dead man's arm --
Science of laziness --
Fair brow --
Stolen crown --
King's daughter who could never get enough figs --
Three dogs --
Uncle Wolf --
Giricoccola --
Tabagnino the Hunchback --
King of the animals --
Devil's breeches --
Dear as salt --
Queen of the three mountains of gold --
Lose your temper, and you lose your bet --
Feathered ogre --
Dragon with seven heads --
Bellinda and the monster --
Shepherd at court --
Sleeping queen --
Son of the merchant from Milan --
Monkey Palace --
Rosina in the oven --
Salamanna grapes --
Enchanted palace --
Buffalo head --
King of Portugal's son --
Fanta-Ghirò the Beautiful --
Old woman's hide --
Olive --
Catherine, sly country lass --
Traveler from Turin --
Daughter of the sun --
Dragon and the enchanted filly --
Florentine --
Ill-fated royalty --
Golden ball --
Fioravante and beautiful Isolina --
Fearless simpleton --
Milkmaid queen --
Story of Campriano --
North wind's gift --
Sorceress's head --
Apple girl --
Prezzemolina --
Fine greenbird --
King in the basket --
One-handed murderer --
Two hunchbacks --
Pete and the ox --
King of the peacocks --
Palace of the doomed queen --
Little geese --
Water in the basket --
Fourteen --
Jack Strong, slayer of five hundred --
Crystal rooster --
A boat for land and water --
Neapolitan soldier --
Belmiele and Belsole --
Haughty prince --
Wooden Maria --
Louse hide --
Cicco Petrillo --
Ner and Bertha --
Love of the three pomegranates --
Joseph Ciufolo, tiller-flutist --
Bella Venezia --
Mangy one --
Wildwood king --
Mandorlinfiore --
Three blind queens --
Hunchback Wryneck Hobbler --
One-Eye --
False grandmother --
Frankie-Boy's trade --
Shining fish --
Miss North Wind and Mr. Zephyr --
Palace mouse and the garden mouse --
Moor's bones --
Chicken laundress --
Crack, Crook, and Hook --
First sword and last broom --
Mrs. Fox and Mr. Wolf --
Five scapegraces --
Ari-Ari, donkey, donkey, money, money! --
School of Salamanca --
Tale of the cats --
Chick --
Slave mother --
Siren wife --
Princess wed to the first passers-by --
Liombruno --
Cannelora --
Filo d'Oro and Filomena --
Thirteen bandits --
Three orphans --
Sleeping Beauty and her children --
Handmade king --
Turkey hen --
Three Chicory gatherers --
Beauty-with-the-seven-dresses --
Serpent King --
Widow and the brigand --
Crab with the golden eggs --
Nick Fish --
Gràttula-Beddàttula --
Misfortune --
Pippina the Serpent --
Catherine the Wise --
Ismailian merchant --
Thieving dove --
Dealer in peas and beans --
Sultan with the itch --
Wife who lived on wind --
Wormwood --
King of Spain and the English milord --
Bejeweled boot --
Left-hand squire --
Rosemary --
Lame Devil --
Three tales by three sons of three merchants --
Dove girl --
Jesus and St. Peter in Sicily --
Barber's timepiece --
Count's sister --
Master Francesco sit-down-and-eat --
Marriage of a queen and a bandit --
Seven lamb heads --
Two sea merchants --
Out in the world --
A boat loaded with... --
King's son in the henhouse --
Mincing princess --
Great narbone --
Animal talk and the nosy wife --
Calf with the golden horns --
Captain and the general --
Peacock feather --
Garden witch --
Mouse with the long tail --
Two cousins --
Two muleteers --
Giovannuzza the Fox --
Child that fed the crucifix --
Steward Truth --
Foppish king --
Princess with the horns --
Giufà --
Fra Ignazio --
Solomon's advice --
Man who robbed the robbers --
Lions' grass --
Convent of nuns and the monastery of monks --
Male fern --
St. Anthony's gift --
March and the shepherd --
John Balento --
Jump into my sack