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Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 folktales published in 1956
1956 in literature

The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
 by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italy journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ....
. Calvino
Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italy journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ....
 began to undertake the project that will lead to the Italian Folktales in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian Formalism scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements....
's Morphology of the Folktale; his intention was to emulate the Brothers Grimm
Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were Germans academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time ....
 in producing a popular collection of Italian fairy tales for the general reader. He did not compile tales from listeners, but made extensive use of the existing work of folklorists; he noted the source of each individual tale, but warned that was merely the version he used.

He included extensive notes on his alterations to make the tales more readable and the logic of his selections, such as renaming the heroine of The Little Girl Sold with the Pears Perina rather than Margheritina to connect to the pears, and selecting Bella Venezia as the Italian variant of Snow White
Snow White

Snow White is the title fictional character of a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm....
 because it featured robbers, rather than the variants containing dwarfs, which he suspected were imported from Germany.

It was first translated into English in 1962; a further translation is by Sylvia Mulcahy (Dent
Dent

Dent may refer to:* An indentation or impact mark, it may also refer to a permanent deformation on a surface ...
, 1975) and constituted the first comprehensive collection of Italian fairy tales.

  • The Ship with Three Decks
  • The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
  • And Seven!
    The Three Spinners

    The Three Spinners is a German fairy tale Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale no 14 and Aarne-Thompson type 501. It is widespread throughout Europe....
  • Body-without-Soul
  • Money Can Do Everything
  • The Little Shepherd
  • Silver Nose
  • The Count's Beard
  • The Little Girl Sold with the Pears
    The Little Girl Sold with the Pears

    "The Little Girl Sold with the Pears" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in Italian Folktales, from Piedmont. Ruth Manning-Sanders included a variant, as "The Girl in the Basket", in A Book of Ogres and Trolls....
  • The Snake
    Biancabella and the Snake

    Biancabella and the Snake is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola....
  • The Three Castles
  • The Prince Who Married a Frog
  • The Parrot
  • The Twelve Oxen
  • Crack and Crook
  • The Canary Prince
    The Canary Prince

    The Canary Prince is an Italian fairy tale, the 18th tale in Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino. He took the tale from Turin, making various stylistic changes; he noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec produced a rather different effect, being tales of adultery....
  • King Cum
  • Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese
  • The Pot of Marjoram
  • The Billiards Player
  • Animal Speech
  • The Three Cottages
  • The Peasant Astrologer
  • The Wolf and the Three Girls
  • The Land Where One Never Dies
  • The Devotee of St.






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    Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     folktales published in 1956
    1956 in literature

    The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
     by Italo Calvino
    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino was an Italy journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ....
    . Calvino
    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino was an Italy journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ....
     began to undertake the project that will lead to the Italian Folktales in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp
    Vladimir Propp

    Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian Formalism scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements....
    's Morphology of the Folktale; his intention was to emulate the Brothers Grimm
    Brothers Grimm

    The Brothers Grimm , Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were Germans academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words shift over time ....
     in producing a popular collection of Italian fairy tales for the general reader. He did not compile tales from listeners, but made extensive use of the existing work of folklorists; he noted the source of each individual tale, but warned that was merely the version he used.

    He included extensive notes on his alterations to make the tales more readable and the logic of his selections, such as renaming the heroine of The Little Girl Sold with the Pears Perina rather than Margheritina to connect to the pears, and selecting Bella Venezia as the Italian variant of Snow White
    Snow White

    Snow White is the title fictional character of a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm....
     because it featured robbers, rather than the variants containing dwarfs, which he suspected were imported from Germany.

    It was first translated into English in 1962; a further translation is by Sylvia Mulcahy (Dent
    Dent

    Dent may refer to:* An indentation or impact mark, it may also refer to a permanent deformation on a surface ...
    , 1975) and constituted the first comprehensive collection of Italian fairy tales.

    List of tales

    3. The Ship with Three Decks
    4. The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
    5. And Seven!
      The Three Spinners

      The Three Spinners is a German fairy tale Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale no 14 and Aarne-Thompson type 501. It is widespread throughout Europe....
    6. Body-without-Soul
    7. Money Can Do Everything
    8. The Little Shepherd
    9. Silver Nose
    10. The Count's Beard
    11. The Little Girl Sold with the Pears
      The Little Girl Sold with the Pears

      "The Little Girl Sold with the Pears" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in Italian Folktales, from Piedmont. Ruth Manning-Sanders included a variant, as "The Girl in the Basket", in A Book of Ogres and Trolls....
    12. The Snake
      Biancabella and the Snake

      Biancabella and the Snake is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola....
    13. The Three Castles
    14. The Prince Who Married a Frog
    15. The Parrot
    16. The Twelve Oxen
    17. Crack and Crook
    18. The Canary Prince
      The Canary Prince

      The Canary Prince is an Italian fairy tale, the 18th tale in Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino. He took the tale from Turin, making various stylistic changes; he noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec produced a rather different effect, being tales of adultery....
    19. King Cum
    20. Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese
    21. The Pot of Marjoram
    22. The Billiards Player
    23. Animal Speech
    24. The Three Cottages
    25. The Peasant Astrologer
    26. The Wolf and the Three Girls
    27. The Land Where One Never Dies
    28. The Devotee of St. Joseph
    29. The Three Crones
    30. The Crab Prince
    31. Silent for Seven Years
    32. The Dead Man's Palace
    33. Pome and Peel
    34. The Cloven Youth
    35. Invisible Grandfather
    36. The King of Denmark's Son
    37. Petie Pete Versus Witch Bea-Witch
    38. Quack, Quack! Stick to My Back!
    39. The Happy Man's Shirt
    40. One Night in Paradise
    41. Jesus and St. Peter in Friuli
    42. The Magic Ring
    43. The Dead Man's Arm
    44. The Science of Laziness
    45. Fair Brow
      Fair Brow

      Fair Brow is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in his Italian Popular Tales.Italo Calvino included a variant from Istria in his Italian Folktales....
    46. The Stolen Crown
    47. The King's Daughter Who Could Never Get Enough Figs
    48. The Three Dogs
    49. Uncle Wolf
    50. Giricoccola
    51. Tabagnino the Hunchback
    52. The King of the Animals
    53. The Devil's Breeches
    54. Dear as Salt
    55. The Queen of the Three Mountains of Gold
    56. Lose Your Temper, and You Lose Your Bet
    57. The Feathered Ogre
    58. The Dragon with Seven Heads
    59. Bellinda and the Monster
    60. The Shepherd at Court
    61. The Sleeping Queen
    62. The Son of the Merchant from Milan
    63. Monkey Palace
    64. Rosina in the Oven
    65. The Salamanna Grapes
    66. The Enchanted Palace
    67. Buffalo Head
    68. The King of Portugal's Son
    69. Fanta-Ghiro the Beautiful
    70. The Old Woman's Hide
    71. Olive
    72. Catherine, Sly Country Lass
    73. The Traveler from Turin
    74. The Daughter of the Sun
    75. The Dragon and the Enchanted Filly
    76. The Florentine
    77. Ill-Fated Royalty
    78. The Golden Ball
    79. Fioravante and Beautiful Isolina
    80. Fearless Simpleton
    81. The Milkmaid Queen
    82. The Story of Campriano
    83. The North Wind's Gift
    84. The Sorceress's Head
    85. Apple Girl
    86. Prezzemolina
    87. The Fine Greenbird
    88. The King in the Basket
    89. The One-Handed Murderer
    90. The Two Hunchbacks
    91. Pete and the Ox
    92. The King of the Peacocks
    93. The Palace of the Doomed Queen
    94. The Little Geese
    95. Water in the Basket
    96. Fourteen
    97. Jack Strong, Slayer of Five Hundred
    98. Crystal Rooster
    99. A Boat for Land and Water
    100. The Neapolitan Soldier
    101. Belmiele and Belsole
    102. The Haughty Prince
    103. Wooden Maria
    104. Louse Hide
    105. Cicco Petrillo
    106. Nero and Bertha
    107. The Love of the Three Pomegranates
    108. Joseph Ciufolo, Tiller-Flutist
    109. Bella Venezia
      Bella Venezia

      Bella Venezia is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Calvino selected this variant, where the heroine meets robbers, rather than others that contains dwarfs, because he believed the dwarfs were probably an importation from Germany....
    110. The Mangy One
    111. The Wildwood King
    112. Mandorlinfiore
    113. The Three Blind Queens
    114. Hunchback Wryneck Hobbler
    115. One-Eye
    116. The False Grandmother
    117. Frankie-Boy's Trade
    118. Shining Fish
    119. Miss North Wind and Mr. Zephyr
    120. The Palace Mouse and the Garden Mouse
    121. The Moor's Bones
    122. The Chicken Laundress
    123. Crack, Crook, and Hook
    124. First Sword and Last Broom
    125. Mrs. Fox and Mr. Wolf
    126. The Five Scapegraces
    127. Ari-Ari, Donkey, Donkey, Money, Money!
    128. The School of Salamanca
    129. The Tale of the Cats
    130. Chick
    131. The Slave Mother
      The Slave Mother

      The Slave Mother is an Italian fairy tale, collected by Italo Calvino in Italian Folktales, from Terra d'Ortano....
    132. The Sire Wife
    133. The Princesses Wed to the First Passer-By
    134. Liombruno
    135. Cannelora
    136. Filo d'Oro and Filomena
    137. The Thirteen Bandits
    138. The Three Orphans
    139. Sleeping Beauty and Her Children
      Sleeping Beauty

      Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma M?re l'Oye .While Perrault's version is better known, an older variant, the tale Sun, Moon, and Talia, was contained in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone ....
    140. The Handmade King
    141. The Turkey Hen
    142. The Three Chicory Gatherers
    143. Beauty-with-the-Seven-Dresses
    144. Serpent King
    145. The Widow and the Brigand
    146. The Crab with the Golden Eggs
    147. Nick Fish
    148. Grattula-Beddattula
    149. Misfortune
      Misfortune

      Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales.Another telling of the tale appears under the title Unfortunate in A Book of Enchantments and Curses, by Ruth Manning-Sanders....
    150. Pippina the Serpent
    151. Catherine the Wise
    152. The Ismailian Merchant
    153. The Thieving Dove
    154. Dealer in Peas and Beans
    155. The Sultan with the Itch
    156. The Wife Who Lived on Wind
    157. Wormwood
    158. The King of Spain and the English Milord
    159. The Bejeweled Boot
    160. The Left-Hand Squire
    161. Rosemary
    162. Lame Devil
    163. Three Tales by Three Sons of Three Merchants
    164. The Dove Girl
    165. Jesus and St. Peter in Sicily
    166. The Barber's Timepiece
    167. The Count's Sister
    168. Master Francesco Sit-Down-and-Eat
    169. The Marriage of Queen and a Bandit
    170. The Seven Lamb Heads
    171. The Two Sea Merchants
    172. Out in the World
    173. A Boat Loaded with…
    174. The King's Son in the Henhouse
    175. The Mincing Princess
    176. The Great Narbone
    177. Animal Talk and the Nosy Wife
    178. The Calf with the Golden Horns
    179. The Captain and the General
    180. The Peacock Feather
    181. The Garden Witch
    182. The Mouse with the Long Tail
    183. The Two Cousins
    184. The Two Muleteers
    185. Giovannuzza the Fox
    186. The Child that Fed the Crucifix
    187. Steward Truth
    188. The Foppish King
    189. The Princess with the Horns
    190. Giufa
    191. Fra Ignazio
    192. Solomon's Advice
    193. The Man Who Robbed the Robbers
    194. The Lions' Grass
    195. The Convent of Nuns and the Monastery of Monks
    196. The Male Fern
    197. St. Anthony's Gift
    198. March and the Shepherd
    199. John Balento
    200. Jump into My Sack


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