Verde Prato

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Verde Prato ( Neapolitan , roughly "Grünwies") is a fairy tale ( AaTh 432). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the second story of the second day (II, 2).

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Nella's beloved prince visits her bed every day through a crystal corridor. Her jealous sisters destroy it. The prince suffers fatal wounds and his father puts a price on his healing. Nella sets out in disguise and, late in the woods, overhears the ogre confiding to his wife that only the fat will help their bodies. She asks for shelter and kills the ogres. Then she heals the prince and is allowed to marry him. The sisters are judged.

Remarks

The title “Verde Prato” is perhaps the prince's name. In the end he proves loyalty by marrying her only when he recognizes her. Compare with Basile II, 5 Die Schlange , II, 9 Der Riegel , V, 4 Der goldene Stamm . Rudolf Schenda notes how the central motif of this narrative type, that the prince is transformed into a bird, is hinted at here in his speech: “Every time you want to etch me like a sparrow with your charm, throw some of this powder into the fire . Immediately after your call, I will come to you through the corridor to meet the enjoyment of your silver-like face on a crystal street. ”His wound is reminiscent of Chrétien's Lancelot . The envious sisters may have been introduced to this type of fairy tale by Apuleius ' Amor and Psyche . Listening to the devil is also available in IV, 6 The Three Crowns and IV, 8 The Seven Täublein (or Grimm's Fairy Tales No. 29 , 125 , 165 , a similar magical course in No. 133 ). The fairy tale appeared in German in 1790 as Der Blaue Vogel in The Blue Library of All Nations . Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's L'oiseau bleu (1697) was apparently more influential in northern Italy than Basil's original version. Rudolf Schenda mentions in Pitrès Sicilia I, No. 38 Li palli magichi , in Pitrè / Schenda / Senns Märchen aus Sizilien No. 47 The beautiful girl ( The fairy tales of world literature , 1991), in Gonzenbach No. 27 From the Green Bird , in Calvino No. 18 Il Principe Canarino and at De Simone I No. 9 La scalinata di cristallo and No. 45 Il grappolo d'uva . Walter Scherf finds the split in the human psyche portrayed drastically here, but more conclusively in the Greek fairy tale Der Artik-Partik .

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. 139-144, 535-536, 585-586 (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. 140 (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. 535-536 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  3. ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 585-586 (based on the Neapolitan text from 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  4. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 1259-1261.