Rosella (Giambattista Basile)

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Rosella is a fairy tale ( AaTh 516C, 313). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the ninth story of the third day (III, 9).

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A sultan wants to bathe in the blood of a prince, which doctors say is supposed to cure his leprosy. His daughter Rosella paralyzes her mother with a spell on paper that she puts in her pocket and escapes with the prince on a ship. When the mother is undressed, she wakes up and follows the couple invisibly. Rosella lets the prince slay her with a magic sword, the sultan follows her into death. But her curse causes the prince to forget Rosella at home. She moves into quarters at the court and fools customers with a door that cannot be closed, a candle that cannot be extinguished and hair that cannot be combed. When confronted by the king, she reveals what she did for the prince and they get married.

Remarks

Rosella probably means "rose". The Mediterranean love novella apparently goes back to Filenia in Francesco Bello 's Mambriano collection from 1509. Rudolf Schenda also compares Andrea da Barberino's chivalric novel I Reali di Francia from 1491, Chapter 2 and on Living on in Sicily Feledico and Epomata near Gonzenbach , No. 55. The leprosy healing by human blood comes from late medieval examples and is known from the legend Amicus and Amelius . The motif 'hero forgets his bride' can already be found in Chrétien de Troyes ' Yvain from the 12th century (later Aues Iwein ). The beautiful Magelon is similar . See. Grimm tale no. 51 , 56 , 65 , 88 , 113 , 127 , 186 , 193 . For Walter Scherf, the severed arms mean that the mother can no longer intervene. The teasing of the suitors was not in book versions, but it was in oral tradition.

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. 273-280, 549, 601-602 (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 , pp. 601-602 (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. 549 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  3. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 991-993.