Corvetto

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Corvetto is a fairy tale ( AaTh 328, 1525). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the seventh story on the third day (III, 7).

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The courtiers hate Corvetto because the king likes him. They persuade the king that Corvetto must fetch him the terrible ogre's horse, then his talking tapestries and finally the ogre's palace itself. Corvetto escapes the ogre on horseback, although he calls for help. He hides under the ogre's bed, steals the carpets, including the bedspread, and is gone when the alarm goes off. Finally he kills the ogre woman and plunges the charging ogre into a pit. He receives the king's daughter and the courtiers are annoyed.

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The ogre , a dumb, supernatural being, is a common feature of Basile. Rudolf Schenda names later variants of the Corvetto fairy tale. The carpet verses "Sol ch'io ti miri" and "Al calar del Sole" ("Sun that I look at you" and "When the sun goes down") are probably Basile's own quotes from his odes. Hermann Kletke published the fairy tale in German in 1845 in his fairy tale hall (No. 8). Clemens Brentano adapted it as Das Märchen vom Witzenspitzel in Italian Fairy Tales . Cf. Hans and the Beanstalk , in Grimm's fairy tale The brave little tailor , The two wanderers , Ferenand trumped and Ferenand undefeated , the master thief .

literature

  • Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 261-266, 548, 600 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 548 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).