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Peruonto
Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. Synopsis A widow named Ceccarella had a stupid son named Peruonto, as ugly as an ogre. One day, she sent him to gather wood. He saw three men sleeping in the sunlight and made them a shelter of branches. They woke, and being the sons of a fairy, gave him a charm that whatever he asked for would be done. As he was carrying the wood back, he wished that it would carry him, and he rode it back like a horse. The king's daughter Vastolla, who never laughed, saw it and burst out laughing. Peruonto wished she would marry him and he would cure her of her laughing. A marriage was arranged for Vastolla with a prince, but Vastolla refused, because she would marry only the man who rode the wood. The king proposed putting her to death. His councilors advised him to go after the man instead. The king had a banquet with all the nobles and lords, thinking Vastolla would betray which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruonto And Vardiello
Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. Synopsis A widow named Ceccarella had a stupid son named Peruonto, as ugly as an ogre. One day, she sent him to gather wood. He saw three men sleeping in the sunlight and made them a shelter of branches. They woke, and being the sons of a fairy, gave him a charm that whatever he asked for would be done. As he was carrying the wood back, he wished that it would carry him, and he rode it back like a horse. The king's daughter Vastolla, who never laughed, saw it and burst out laughing. Peruonto wished she would marry him and he would cure her of her laughing. A marriage was arranged for Vastolla with a prince, but Vastolla refused, because she would marry only the man who rode the wood. The king proposed putting her to death. His councilors advised him to go after the man instead. The king had a banquet with all the nobles and lords, thinking Vastolla would betray which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Pike's Behest
''Emelya the Simpleton'' (russian: Емеля-дурак) or ''At the Pike's Behest'' (russian: По щучьему веленью) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''. Synopsis Emelya lived in a village on the shore of the Volga River with his two brothers and their wives. Although he was good-looking, he was also foolish, lazy, and despised work. He spent his days sitting on the clay stove in the kitchen. His brothers ran a trading business left to them by their dead father. The brothers left Emelya one day, to sell their wares along the river, leaving Emelya with the wives, promising to return with a kaftan, red boots, and a red hat for their brother. During the days and weeks the brothers were gone, the wives tried unsuccessfully to get Emelya to do work, until one day, they left Emelya with a choice: get water from the frozen river, or no dinner and no kaftan, red boots and red hat. At that threat, Emelya hurried on his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Facetious Nights Of Straparola
''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' ( 1550–1555; Italian: ''Le piacevoli notti''), also known as ''The Nights of Straparola'', is a two-volume collection of 75Nancy Canepa. "Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480–1558)" in ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales'', 3-volumes, edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Press, 2008, pages 926–27. stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's ''Decameron'', it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; it would influence later fairy-tale authors like Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. History ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' was first published in Italy between 1550–53 under the title ''Le piacevoli notti'' (''"The Pleasant Nights"'') containing 74 stories. In 1555 the stories were published in a single volume in which one of the tales was replaced with two new tales, bringing the total to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Giovanni Francesco "Gianfrancesco" Straparola, also known as Zoan or Zuan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio (ca. 1485?–1558), was an Italian writer of poetry, and collector and writer of short stories. Some time during his life, he migrated from Caravaggio to Venice where he published a collection of stories in two volumes called '' The Facetious Nights'' or '' The Pleasant Nights''. This collection includes some of the first known printed versions of fairy tales in Europe, as they are known today. Biography Life Not much is known of Straparola's life except for a few facts regarding his published works. He was likely born some time around 1485 in Caravaggio, Italy (on the Lombard plain east of Milan). However, nothing more is known of his life until 1508 when he was found to be in Venice where he signed his name "Zoan" on the title page of his ''Opera nova de Zoan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio novamente stampata'' (''New Works''). Prior to issuing the first volume of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dolphin (fairy Tale)
The Dolphin is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy. Another literary tale of this type is Giambattista Basile's older Peruonto. A folk variant is the French Half-Man. Synopsis A king and queen had several children, but loved them only if they were good and beautiful. One, Alidor, being ugly, in time left his parents secretly. More distressed over their reputation than his fate, they sent after him, but he had chosen his path with care and vanished. He met a young man in service to the King of the Woods and heard of his beautiful daughter Livorette, and so resolved to go there. Once there, Livorette and all her ladies laughed at his ugliness. The queen, however, drew him aside and inquired after him. He soon became a favorite at the court because of his intelligence and courtesy, but Livorette still laughed at him, and being madly in love with her, Alidor soon became melancholy. Trying to distract himself, he fished, but he caught nothing, and Livorette mocked h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-Man
Half-Man is a French fairy tale collected by Achille Millien and Paul Delarue. It is Aarne-Thompson type 675, a type of tale found throughout Europe. Another variant is ''Peruonto''.Paul Delarue, ''The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales'', p 389, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956 Synopsis A farmer and his wife had three sons, but the youngest was only half a man: one arm, one leg, etc. One day, the mother sent the sons for wood. The older two got ahead of Half-Man and came to a river. An old woman asked for help across, but they said they did not have time. Half-Man came and helped her. She gave him a magic wand. He used it to get wood, and then to turn himself into a bourgeois. He went to speak to his father, who told him that he was poor, and that one of his sons was only half a man but he liked him better than the others. Half-Man took back his normal form and filled the pantry with things to eat. He went for a walk and saw the king's daughter. He used the wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentamerone
The ''Pentamerone'', subtitled ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. Background The stories in the ''Pentamerone'' were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy, in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. These stories were later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the latter making extensive, acknowledged use of Basile's collection. Examples of this are versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. While other collections of stories have included stories that would be termed fairy tales, his work is the first collection in which all the stories fit in that single category. He did not transcribe them from the oral tradition as a modern collector would, instead writing them in Neapolitan, and in many respects was the first writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budoc
Saint Budoc of Dol (also Budeaux or Beuzec) was a Bishop of Dol, venerated after his death as a saint in both Brittany (now in France) and Devon (now in England). Saint Budoc is the patron of Plourin Ploudalmezeau in Finistère where his relics are preserved. His feast day was celebrated on 8 December, the date still used in Devon, but in Brittany this was moved to 9 December. Name The name Budoc, or Beuzec, means "saved from the waters" from the Breton ''beuziñ'' meaning "drown"; but Baring-Gould finds this "fanciful". In old Celtic, ''boudi'' means "victory" and "profit". Life Baring-Gould suggests that the princess Azenor fled Brittany with her young son due to dynastic conflict. Arriving first in Cornwall, they then proceeded to Ireland, where Budoc became a monk. They later returned to Brittany, landing at Porspoder near Brest. Hagiographer G.H. Doble is of the opinion that Budoc was a once famous abbot whose chief establishment was on the Breton coast. The vita of Breton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasiae
Prasiae or Prasiai ( grc, Πρασιαί),Aristophanes, ''Pac.'' 242 or Prasia (Πρασία),''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'' p. 17 also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί), was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta. The ''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'' speaks of it as a city and a harbour. Name of the city The name of the town was derived by the inhabitants from the noise of the waves (Βράζειν). Pausanias relates a story, found nowhere else in Greece, that Semele, after giving birth to her son by Zeus, was discovered by Cadmus and put with Dionysus into a chest, which was washed up by the waves at Prasiae. Semele, who was no longer alive when found, received a splendid funeral, but the Prasiaeans brought up Dionysus and changed the name of their town from Oreiatae or Oreiatai (Ὀρειάταί) to Brasiae. Later hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Guettel Cole
Susan Guettel Cole is Professor Emerita at the University at Buffalo in the Department of Classics. She is known for her work on Ancient Greek Religion and gender. Education Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.'' Career After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC. She published ''Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace'', based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986. Her second book, ''Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience'', came out in 2004. She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture. In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duchy of Brittany, duchy before being Union of Brittany and France, united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a provinces of France, province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany has also been referred to as Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain, with which it shares an etymology). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, Normandy to the northeast, eastern Pays de la Loire to the southeast, the Bay of Biscay to the south, and the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its land area is 34,023 km2 . Brittany is the site of some of the world's oldest standing architecture, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Delarue
Paul Alfred Delarue, born 20 April 1889 in Saint-Didier, Nièvre, died 25 July 1956 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, was a French folklorist. A world-renowned specialist in the field of folklore, his crowning achievement was his , a catalog of folktales found in France and French-speaking areas, structured and modeled on the Aarne-Thompson classification system. The first volume appeared in 1957, a few months after his death. The project, expected to run to several volumes, was continued by . After dabbling in his interest into local flora (''Étude sur la Flore nivernaise'', published 1930), he dedicated himself to transcribing and index-carding collected folktales in the manuscripts left by Achille Millien, the Nivernais folklorist. Between 1933 and 1936 he launched his own field study with the inhabitants of Nièvre, while teaching at Saint-Léger-des-Vignes, then Montsauche and Vauzelles, then moving to the Paris area. He was director of the school in Ivry-sur-Seine, 1939–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
