The two brothers (Giambattista Basile)
The two brothers ( Neapolitan original: Li dui fratielle ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 613). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the second story of the fourth day (IV, 2).
content
The father dies and advises his sons to lead a virtuous life. The older one studies hard, but is unhappy and poor. So when he asks his well-to-do brother for help, he turns him away. He wants to throw himself from a mountain, but on the summit he meets Frau Tugend, and gives him a healing powder with which he heals a sick princess and becomes the king's counsel. His brother, now impoverished, wants to hang himself, the beam breaks and money falls out. But this one has been stolen and he is to be hanged. When his innocence is proven, his virtuous brother recognizes him and takes him in.
Remarks
Rudolf Schenda notices how Basile apparently struggled to shape the story into a fairy tale. Hence the overload with popular wisdom of the dying father, cf. at Basile II, 4 Cagliuso , at Straparola Salardo . Basile again introduces a fairy to turn the plot, the scene here resembles Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme liberata (Canto XVII, ottava 61). The fairy tale first appeared in German in 1845 in Kletke's fairy tale hall , no. 13. Cf. in Grimm Der Lazy and the Hard-Working .
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. 310-320, 552-553, 603-604 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
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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 , pp. 310-320, 552-553, 603-604 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).