The punished arrogance

Illustration by Franz von Bayros , 1909

The punished arrogance ( Neapolitan original: La soperbia casticata ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 900). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the tenth story of the fourth day (IV, 10). Felix Liebrecht translated Punished Hochmuth .

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The beautiful princess cruelly refuses any suitor. An offended king begins disguised as a gardener and entices her with a beautiful dress, then a matching petticoat and finally the bodice, which he places under her window. For this he demands to sleep in the hall, in the anteroom and finally in her room. She assigns him a corner and he rapes her in her sleep. Eventually she becomes pregnant and has to flee with him. She lives in poverty at his court, not knowing that he is king. He asks her three times for thefts, in which he then catches her as a king and humiliates her for it. Only when she has her child does his mother stop vengeance. They marry.

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According to Rudolf Schenda , this is probably based on Luigi Alamanni's novella about the Countess of Tolosa and the jeweler (German in Walter Keller's The Most Beautiful Novellas of the Renaissance , 1918). The subject of the humiliation of the proud princess can already be found in Straparola's Piacevoli notti as Tebaldo di Salerno and Galafro, re di Spagna . See Basile III, 1 Cannetella . The gardener is a standard character of intrigue in love adventure novels. Today the fairy tale resembles the child-friendly King Drosselbart or The Frog King (the corner in the bedroom).

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. 392-399, 559, 610 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

Web links

Gutenberg-DE: Punished arrogance in German translation (presumably after Felix Liebrecht)

Individual evidence

^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 610 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 559 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

[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. 610 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

[2] Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 559 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).