Pentameron
Pentameron ( Neapolitan Pentameron , five-day work ) is the title of a collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile , which appeared in 1634/36 and contains 50 texts. The original title of the collection was Fairy Tales of Fairy Tales ( Lo cunto de li cunti ). Ten women tell fairy tales , one each for five days. To this end, Basile drafts a framework story (see the framework story of the Pentameron ), similar to the model Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio or the Arabian Nights ; An eclogue is inserted between the individual days .
An early mention of the pentameron can be found in the Bibliothèque Universelle des Romans from 1777, where it is compared with Perrault's fairy tale about my mother Gans , but it does not contain “a reasonable […] story”, only “rubbish and real wives' tales.” The Brothers Grimm created summaries of all the texts that appeared in the annotation volume in 1822 on their own fairy tales. Clemens Brentano modernized some pieces as Italian fairy tales . Many of the texts appeared in German in Hermann Kletke's Märchensaal from 1845. The first complete translation by Felix Liebrecht in 1846 has probably had the greatest influence on the German-speaking readership. It is probably due to the new translation by Rudolf Schenda , Luisa Rubini , Alfred Messerli , Doris Senn , Johann Pögl and Dieter Richter (Head: Rudolf Schenda) replaced. It was based on preliminary work u. a. by Benedetto Croce and the bilingual edition of Basile by the Neapolitan Michele Rak .
Texts included
The first day
- opening
- I, 1 The fairy tale of the Orco ( Lo cunto de l'uerco )
- I, 2 The little myrtle ( La mortella )
- I, 3 Peruonto
- I, 4 Vardiello
- I, 5 The flea ( Lo polene )
- I, 6 The ash cat ( La gatta cenerentola )
- I, 7 The Merchant ( Lo mercante )
- I, 8 The goat face ( La facce de crapa )
- I, 9 The deceitful hind ( La cerva fatata )
- I, 10 The battered old woman ( La vecchia scorticata )
- First Eclogue: The Crucible
The second day
- introduction
- II, 1 petrosinella
- II, 2 Verde Prato
- II, 3 viola
- II, 4 Cagliuso
- II, 5 The snake ( Lo serpe )
- II, 6 The she-bear ( L'orza )
- II, 7 The pigeon ( La palomma )
- II, 8 The little slave girl ( La schiavottella )
- II, 9 The bolt ( Lo catenaccio )
- II, 10 The godfather ( Lo compare )
- Second eclogue: the dye-works
The third day
- introduction
- III, 1 Cannetella
- III, 2 Penta without hands ( La Penta mano-mozza )
- III, 3 viso
- III, 4 The wise Liccarda ( Sapia Leccarda )
- III, 5 The dung beetle, the mouse and the cricket ( Lo scarafone, lo sorece e lo grillo )
- III, 6 The garlic forest ( La serva d'aglie )
- III, 7 Corvetto
- III, 8 The Dummling ( Lo 'ngnorante )
- III, 9 Rosella
- III, 10 The three fairies ( Le tre fate )
- Third eclogue: the bathroom
The fourth day
- introduction
- IV, 1 The Rooster Stone ( La preta de lo gallo )
- IV, 2 The two brothers ( Li dui fratielle )
- IV, 3 The three animal kings ( Li tre ri animale )
- IV, 4 The seven rinds ( Le sette catenelle )
- IV, 5 The dragon ( Lo dragone )
- IV, 6 The three crowns ( Le tre corone )
- IV, 7 The two small cakes ( Le doie pizzelle )
- IV, 8 The Seven Täublein ( Li sette palommielle )
- IV, 9 The raven ( Lo cuorvo )
- IV, 10 The punished arrogance ( La soperbia casticata )
- Fourth Eclogue: The Hook
The fifth day
- introduction
- V, 1 The goose ( La papara )
- V, 2 The Months ( Li mise )
- V, 3 pinto Smauto
- V, 4 The golden trunk ( Lo turzo d'oro )
- V, 5 sun, moon and Thalia ( Sole, Luna e Talia )
- V, 6 Sapia
- V, 7 The five sons ( Li cinco figlie )
- V, 8 Ninnillo and Nennella ( Nennillo e Nennella )
- V, 9 The three lemons ( Le tre cetra )
- V, 10 end of the fairy tale of fairy tales
Film adaptations
According to the Italian Wikipedia, the fairy tale film Schöne Isabella (1967) is inspired by the fairy tale collection, most likely II, 7 The Dove , III, 10 The Three Fairies or I, 6 The Ashen Cat .
The Italian-French-British film The Fairy Tale of Fairy Tales from 2015 is based on three stories of the Pentameron : The Flea (I, 5), The Insidious Doe (I, 9) and The Tortured Old One (I, 10). The film tells the three fairy tales in parallel and loosely interweaves them. It was directed by the Italian director Matteo Garrone , and the international ensemble included actors such as Salma Hayek , Toby Jones , Vincent Cassel and John C. Reilly .
expenditure
- Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
- The pentameron. The fairy tale of fairy tales. Complete German edition. Edited and with an afterword by Linda Sundmaeker. Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95494-089-9 (completely based on the Breslau text from 1846).
- Ensemble Oni Wytars : Pentameron (Legends, Magic and Love in Music at the Time of Basile's “The Tale of Tales”) with works by Baldissera Donato , Dell'Arpa, Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger , Bernaldino detta Velardiniero, Nola, Anonymus & from the Cancionero de Palacio, Sony Music / German harmonia mundi
Web links
- Lo cunto de li cunti . (In the Neapolitan original)
- Comparison of the fairy tales Straparolas and Basiles
- Some texts in Italian
- The pentameron in the Gutenberg-DE project (German translation; presumably based on Felix Liebrecht , 1846)
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. 9 (based on the Neapolitan text from 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. 11 (based on the Neapolitan text from 1634/36, completely and newly translated).