Italian folktales
(1999, original release: 1980)

Nonfiction

Book

Series:
Call Numbers:
398.21/CALVINO,I

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 398.21/CALVINO,I Available

Details

PUBLISHED
San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., [1999?]
©1980
DESCRIPTION

xxxii, 763 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780156454896, 0156454890 :, 0156454890, 9780156454896
LANGUAGE
English
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

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