In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gather up the tales told and retold among the peasants. Gonzenbach collected wonderful stories - some on subjects that readers will know from the Grimms or Perrault, some entirely new - and published them in German. Her early death and the destruction of her papers in the Messina earthquake of 1908 only add to the mystery behind her achievement. Beautiful Angiola is an instant classic: a nineteenth-century collection of stories in the great tradition of fairy and folk tales now translated into English for the first time. Gonzenbach delights us with heroines and princes, sorcery and surprise, the deeds of the brave and the treacherous, and the magic of the true storyteller. The Green Bird , The Humiliated Princess , sorfarina , The Magic Cane, the Golden Donkey, and the Little Stick that Hits are titles destine to become new favourites for readers everywhere. Yet while the stories enchant us, the wry taglines with which they often end ("And so they remained rich and consoled, while we keep sitting here and are getting old") gently bring us back to earth.
Author(s): Laura Gonzenbach; Jack Zipes (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 628
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BEAUTIFUL ANGIOLA: THE GREAT TREASURY OF SICILIAN FOLK AND FAIRY TALES COLLECTED BY LAURA GONZENBACH
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CONTENTS
LAURA GONZENBACH’S BURIED TREASURE
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 SORFARINA
2 THE GREEN BIRD
3 THE SNAKE WHO BORE WITNESS FOR A MAIDEN
4 THE SISTER OF MUNTIFIURI
5 THE STORY ABOUT CICCU
6 COUNT PIRO
7 BEAUTIFUL ANGIOLA
8 BETTA PILUSA
9 LIGNU DI SCUPA
10 DON GIOVANNI DI LA FORTUNA
11 FEDERICO AND EPOMATA
12 THE FEARLESS YOUNG MAN
13 CARUSEDDU
14 HOW SAINT JOSEPH HELPED A YOUNG MAN WIN THE DAUGHTER OF A KING
15 THE COURAGEOUS MAIDEN
16 THE HUMILIATED PRINCESS
17 RAGS AND LEAVES
18 THE BRAVE SHOEMAKER
19 PRINCE SCURSUNI
20 MARIA AND HER BROTHER
21 AUTUMUNTI AND PACCAREDDA
22 GIUFÀ
23 THE MAGIC CANE, THE GOLD DONKEY, AND THE LITTLE STICK THAT HITS
24 THE SINGING BAGPIPE
25 GIOVANNI AND KATERINA
26 THE SHEPHERD WHO MADE THE PRINCESS LAUGH
27 BEAUTIFUL CARDIA
28 QUADDARUNI AND HIS SISTER
29 THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
30 PAPERARELLO
31 THE LION, HORSE, AND FOX
32 GIUSEPPINU
33 CRIVÒLIU
34 SAINT ONIRIÀ
35 THE ABBOT WHO RESCUED THE PRINCESS
36 FATA MORGANA
37 THE PIG KING
38 THE COURAGEOUS PRINCE AND HIS MANY ADVENTURES
39 THE KING WHO WANTED A BEAUTIFUL WIFE
40 FERRAZZANU
41 SCIAURANCIOVI
42 CACCIATURINO
43 THE VIRGIN MARY’S CHILD
44 THE STORY ABOUT OHMY
45 THE DAUGHTER OF PRINCE CIRIMIMMINU
46 THE GODCHILD OF SAINT FRANCIS OF PAULA
47 THE STORY ABOUT THE MERCHANT’S SON PEPPINO
48 SPADÒNIA
49 KING CARDIDDU
50 THE PRINCESS AND KING CHICCHEREDDU
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