Italian literature arguably began after the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Latin literature was, and still is, highly influential in the world, with numerous writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, such as Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Livy.
Much later, following in the footsteps of Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Italian Renaissance authors produced a number of important works such as Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, who wrote The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550–1555) and the Pentamerone (1634) respectively, printed some of the first known versions of fairy tales in Europe, examples of which appear in this collection.
Later still the Italian Romantic movement coincided with the Risorgimento, the patriotic movement that brought Italy political unity and freedom from foreign domination. Italian writers embraced Romanticism in the early 19th century. The time of Italy’s rebirth was heralded by the poets Vittorio Alfieri, Ugo Foscolo, and Giacomo Leopardi. The works by Alessandro Manzoni, the leading Italian Romantic, are a symbol of the Italian political struggle.
As ever it’s been a delightful journey wandering through Italy’s famous cities and grand histories as I put this small collection together. I hope that you enjoy these stories too.
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PREFACE
A TUSCAN SNOW-WHITE
HOW THE ASS BECAME A MAN AGAIN
FILAGRANATA
THE STORY OF CICCU
MONTE ROCHETTINO
THE THREE LOVE-ORANGES
HOW THE BEGGAR BOY BECAME COUNT PIRO
TERESINA, LUISA, AND THE BEAR
PALOMBELLETTA
THE STORY OF BENSURDATU
A TUSCAN BLUEBEARD
LA CENORIENTOLA
HOW THE HERMIT HELPED TO WIN THE KING’S DAUGHTER
TASSA
THE KING WHO GOES OUT TO DINNER
THE KING WHO WOULD HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WIFE
PADRE ULIVO
THE POT OF MARJORAM
THE FROG
THE SOUND AND SONG OF THE LOVELY SIBYL
MARIA WOOD
THE CUNNING SHOEMAKER
THE SNAKE’S BOUDOIR
THE TWO HUNCHBACKED BROTHERS
POMO AND THE GOBLIN HORSE
THE DARK KING
A TALE FROM THE BORDERLAND
SCIOCCOLONE
THE PHANTOM BRIDE
SIGNOR LATTANZIO
CYPRESSES AND OLIVES, AN INTERLUDE
HOW CAJUSSE WAS MARRIED
THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI
DON GIOVANNI
LEGEND OF THE LANTERNS
THE DEAD MAN IN THE OAK TREE
THE GOBLIN OF LA VIA DEL CORNO
THE DEAD MAN’S LETTER
THE TWO FAIRIES OF THE WELL – A LEGEND OF THE VIA CALZAIOLI
THE WHITE SOUL
THE ENCHANTED COW OF LA VIA VACCHERECCIA
THE WHITE SERPENT
LA VIA DELLE BELLE DONNE
THE PROCESSION OF VELLETRI
CANNETELLA
THE MUNIFICENCE OF PRINCE BORGHESE
CATHERINE AND HER DESTINY
THE BEAUTIFUL ENGLISHWOMAN
CUPID AND PSYCHE
BELLACUCCIA
VIRGILIUS THE SORCERER
ASS OR PIG
THE GOAT FACED GIRL
THE BAD TEMPERED QUEEN
DON GIOVANNI DE LA FORTUNA
THE BOOBY
HOW BRADAMANTE CONQUERED THE WIZARD
DOCTOR GRILLO
HOW WILLIAM OF PALERMO WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE WEREWOLF
NINA
THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WERWOLF
THE COUNTESS’S CAT
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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