Pinto Smauto

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Pinto Smauto (cf. Italian "pinto smalto", painted glazed ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 425, 403). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the third story of the fifth day (V, 3).

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The merchant's daughter Betta doesn't want to get married. When her father asks what he should bring her, she has baking ingredients brought with scented water, precious stones and gold thread and uses them to bake a beautiful young man, Pinto Smauto. A strange queen steals him at the wedding. Betta is looking for him as a beggar and learns three spells from an old woman. When she was heavily pregnant, she was allowed to live on the stairs in the palace of Monterotondo when she saw Pinto Smauto. Through her sayings a gold wagon, a bird and a valuable cloth appear, from which she buys a night with him three times from the queen, but she gives him sleeping potions. A shoemaker hears Betta moaning at night and tells Pinto Smauto, who spits out the sleeping potion for the third time and fetches money and treasures back for his wife. They go to their father, Betta has a son. The queen is angry.

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Rudolf Schenda interprets: The self-confident Betta only wants a sweetie according to her taste, who turns out to be not very steadfast. Their model is Pygmalion's living statue. "Monterotondo" means "round mountain". The three spells appear in the introduction to day two as the names of children's games. Cf. in Basile III, 1 Cannetella , III, 5 The dung beetle, the mouse and the cricket , III, 9 Rosella , V, 9 The three lemons . For sleeping under the stairs cf. St. Alexius . Clemens Brentano adapted it as The fairy tale of Komanditchen in Italian fairy tales . Cf. in Grimm on the sleeping potion The singing, jumping Löweneckerchen , De Zwei Künigeskinner , The Iron Stove , The Drummer , Prince Swan , Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale on the artificial nightingale .

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. 426-431, 563-564, 612. (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. 564 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).