The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales by Cris... - 9780691199788

Princeton University Press

The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy TalesAuthor(s): Cristina Mazzoni\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691199788, 978-0691199788\nSynopsis\nA collection of magical Italian folk and fairy talesmost in English for the first time\n\nThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italys political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian w.