The five sons

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Illustration by Franz von Bayros , 1909

The five sons ( Neapolitan original: Li cinco figlie ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 653). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the seventh story on the fifth day (V, 7).

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Old Pacione sends his five lazy sons away to hear what they have learned after a year. The first, Luccio, has learned to steal, that worries the father, the second build ships, the third, Renzone, shoot a crossbow, the fourth, Jacuoco, raise the dead, the old man smells profit. The youngest, Menecuccio, has learned the language of birds and gets up from the dining table before the conversation to listen to a sparrow. He learns that the king of Sardinia promises his daughter to him, who will fetch her from a rock where an orco has stolen her. Tittillo builds a ship and they steal Princess Cianna from next to the sleeping Orco. He chases her in a black cloud, Renzone shoots him down, but the princess fell dead from shock. The father complains, but Jacuoco reminds him of his art, finds the herb and awakens it. The king has her deeds told and gives his daughter Pacione, who let his sons learn, and they get money.

Remarks

For the skills cf. at Basile I, 5 Der Flea , III, 8 Der Dummling . Rudolf Schenda notes how the story arises on the one hand from the generation conflict with the father who has grown old and on the other hand from the widespread fairytale motif of the liberation of the princess. He mentions Straparola's forerunner Tre fratelli poveri ( Piacevoli notti , VII, 5), which in turn goes back to Morlini's De fratribus ( Novellae , num. 80). Clemens Brentano edited the fairy tale as The fairy tale of the schoolmaster Klopfstock and his five sons in Italian fairy tales . Cf. Grimms Märchen No. 129 The Four Artful Brothers . Walter Scherf compares Straparola's Three Poor Brothers Going Into the World and Becoming Very Rich and Johann Georg von Hahn's From the Three Brothers Arguing for Brides in Greek and Albanian Fairy Tales , 1864.

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. 453–457, 566–567, 615 (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. 615 (based on the Neapolitan text from 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 368-370.