Sapia (fairy tale)

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Sapia ( Italian , "The Clever") is a fairy tale ( AaTh 891). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the sixth story of the fifth day (V, 6).

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A king sends his lazy son to the house of a baroness, whose daughter is Sapia because of her clevernesswho tries to teach him in vain and gives him a slap in the face. He learns out of shame, becomes the smartest, but seeks revenge. He marries Sapia and then leaves her alone with bad food. But when he expects an admission of guilt, she counters with reference to his stupidity at the time, which angered him even more. Her mother digs a passage to see Sapia, and when the prince moves out and takes possession of his late father's empire, she leads her to him in beautiful disguise on the way. So he falls in love with her three times, gives her a collar, a diadem and a chain and three children. The mother says Sapia is dead, this time he is getting married appropriately, when Sapia appears with the beautiful children. Now he sees her cleverness, takes it and gives the other to his brother.

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The prince is ashamed that a woman of poor standing beats him and takes revenge by failing to marry. The ruse with the children already occurs in Tamar and Judah ( 1 Mos 38.12  EU ). According to Rudolf Schenda , the material has been handed down in large numbers from India to Southern Europe, in Straparola VII, 1 Ortodosio Simeoni , and became famous through Boccaccio's Decamerone III, 9 Giletta di Narbona and Shakespeare's comedy based on it , All's well That ends well . House-to-house tunnels are a reality in Naples . Compare with Basile II, 3 Viola and III, 4 Die wise Liccarda , in Grimm's fairy tales most likely The Clever Farmer's Daughter .

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. 448–452, 566, 614. (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. 566 (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 , pp. 566, 614. (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).