fashion and clothing, 60n7, 115n36, 135n2, 144n6, 160n1, 163n11, 246n22, 266n8, 273n10, 279n8, 298n3, 300nn8–9, 359n14
fata morgana, 24n9, 114n29
Firenzuola, Agnolo, 3n1
food, 26n22, 30n36, 34n9, 38n18, 53n10, 62nn8–10, 63n1, 77n4, 95n9, 100–101nn26–27, 112n24, 114n33, 123n1,150n11, 174–75nn18–19, 176n23, 188n3, 210n5, 213n8, 222n24, 225n1, 244n18, 263n1, 274n11, 305n6, 340n5, 349n8, 358n11
fools, lx–lxi, 240
fortune, theme of, lii, liii, 13n2, 240n1
fountains, 4n9, 449n14. See also spectacle and entertainment
Franco, Niccolò, 264n4
Freund, Sigmund, l
Galiani, Ferdinando, 123n3, 125n31, 384n8
Galilei, Galileo, 309n25, See also science
games: card and of chance, 8n20, 25n19, 230,n15, 288n4, 306n15, 307n17, 333n11, 385n9, 386n17, 394n2; children’s, 3n2, 24n7, 39n21, 93n4, 94n8, 100n24, 123–25nn2–31, 130n6, 143n5, 152n6, 171n13, 201n14, 229n10, 230n17, 250n5, 273n8, 293–94nn2–11, 295n14, 299n6, 355n5, 409n5; general, 67n25, 98n20, 107n8, 118n45, 123n2, 177n27, 191n10, 193n19, 216n9, 216n11, 219n19, 311n28, 317n4, 322n8, 345n1, 365n2, 376n1, 397n2, 435n10; society, 393n1
Garzoni, Tomaso, 285
Giovanni Fiorentino, Ser, xlvii, 32
Giuseppe of Copertino, Saint, xxv–xxvi
Gonzenbach, Laura, xlix, 42, 49, 56, 75, 91, 133, 139, 151, 160, 168, 180, 185, 207, 214, 225, 249, 269, 313, 337, 346, 376, 413, 427
Gozzi, Carlo, xlix,365, 443
Grimm, Brothers, xiii, xxxv, xlviii, xlix, lix, 13, 22, 42, 49, 56, 63, 75, 83, 91, 127, 145, 151, 160, 168, 180, 185, 189,214, 249, 256, 263, 276, 303, 313, 319, 326, 346, 353, 365, 366n3, 376, 397, 402, 407, 413, 422, 432, 437
Guarini, Giovan Battista, 5n14
Guarini, Ruggero. See translations of Lo Cunto de li cunti
Guazzo, Stefano, 393n1
Heliodorus, xxxix
Herodotus, 32, 368n9, 374n15
heroes and heroines, lx–lxi
Histoires ou contes du temps passé [Stories, or Tales of Times Past]. See Perrault, Charles
Hoffmann, E.T.A., xiii
Homer, 197n6, 220n22, 249, 268n12, 334n13, 424n2
horses and equestrian practices, 34n7, 116n37, 218n17, 317n5
hunting, 28n28, 51n3, 147n9, 161n5
Imbriani, Vittorio, xlix, 3, 56, 63, 83, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 168, 346
ingratitude, theme of, 13n2
intertextuality, xlviii, lv, lvi
Italy, locations beyond: Antipodes, 339n3; Candia (Crete), 256n1; Ganges (river), 174n17, 281n10; Gibraltar, Strait of, 446n7; Indies (New World), 445n4; Tyre, 25n16
Italy, locations in: Corneto, 198n10; Faenza, 216n13; Maremma, 25n15; Naples (see Naples, areas or locations in; Naples, city of; Naples, kingdom of; Naples, towns or locations near); Rome, 128n1, 253nn16–17, 425n6; Taranto, 218n14; Trecchina, 107n6; Venice, 264n3, 367n8
Jews, 109n9, 196n3, 209n4, 273n9
judicial system: jurists and court officials, 19n18, 118n46, 170n8, 230n16; laws, legal proceedings, and practices, 82n15, 112n25, 192n16, 220n21, 303n2; formulas, 73n33, 885n10, 162n7, 171n14, 215n2, 288n5, 395n7; texts, 65n9, 306n11; tribunals, 19n18, 170n8, 192nn13–14, 311n30. See also crime and criminals; Vicaria, court of the
Jung, Carl Gustav, l
Kinder-und Hausmärchen [Children’s and Household Tales]. See Grimm, Brothers
kingdom of Naples. See Naples, kingdom of
kings, lxi–lxii
Lasso, Orlando di, 294n13
Lévi–Strauss, Claude, xxix
Lhéritier, Marie-Jeanne, xiii, 234, 276, 319
Liebrecht, Felix, See translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
Lippi, Lorenzo, 83, 393n1, 443
Lucian, 264n4
Lüthi, Max, l
Machiavelli, Niccolò 104
Manzoni, Alessandro, xxvii
Marino, Giambattista, 373n14, 383n5
marriage, practices related to, 115n35, 322n5, 358n11
mathematics, 118n46
measure, units of, 44n3, 46n9, 64nn4–5, 79n9, 135n3, 172n16, 322n6, 376n3, 387n20
medicine: diseases and conditions, 44n4, 56n1, 151nn1–2, 168n2, 188n4, 405n6; physicians, 52n6, 136n5, 231n19, 325n12; practices, 28n26, 181n2, 309n24, 386n19; remedies and treatments, 4n8, 23n3, 26n20, 52n6, 53n11, 60n5, 76n1, 89n14, 136n6, 136n8, 138n9, 144n7, 215nn3–4, 228n6, 231n18, 269n2, 302n11, 308n21, 309n23, 348n4, 371n11, 435n11, 451n17; texts, 4n7, 38n19, 135n5, 401n7. See also animals; plants
Messerli, Alfred, xiv
Metamorphoses, See Ovid
metaphor, lvi–lvii
Middle East: Islam, 182n5, 415n2, 428n3; speech of, 446n6; stereotypes and parodies of, 216n12, 448n11, 449n13; Turkey and Turks, 79n11, 162n9, 307n19, 404n5
military practices, 33n6, 52n5, 70n29, 97n15, 108n12, 108n16, 192n17, 333n9, 351n12, 383n2, 426n7; texts, 118n46. See also weapons
minerals and metals, 228n6, 297n2, 398n3, 399n6, 438n7
monaciello [house imp], 19n19, 23n6, 259n5
Monteverdi, Claudio, 20n20
Morlini, Girolamo, xlviii, 42, 432
Murat, Henriette Julie de, xiii, 337
music: composers, 118n46; compositional forms and techniques, 18n17, 20n20, 48n10, 276n3, 289n10, 407n2; instruments, 40n24, 102nn30–31, 119n49, 240n5, 276nn1–2, 288n8, 294n12, 402n1; singers, 4n5, 8n21, 13n1, 288n7, 289n9, 341n7, 418n4; songs, 84n3, 93n3, 95n11, 170n7, 265n5, 273n8, 294–95nn13–15, 306n10, 334n12, 395n8. See also popular culture; villanella
mythology, classical, figures of: Cupid, 24n8, 62n11, 95n12; Diana, 14n6, 89n12, 238n5; Pleiades, 245n19, 283n14; Sisyphus, 107n5, 367n7; Venus, 24n10, 238n4, 350n9; other, lv, 6n15, 8n19, 24nn11–12, 29n35, 30n38, 40n23, 84n4, 107n5, 110n20, 113n28, 130n5, 197n6, 207n2, 218n15, 220n22, 267–68nn11–12; 306n9, 334n13, 339n4, 343n9, 357n9, 365n1, 399n5, 408n3, 424n2, 425n5, 438n6, 447n8
Naples, areas or locations in: Agnano (lake), 147n9, 435n12; Arenaccia, 64n2; Chiaia, 66n22, 147n8, 282n12; Duchesca, 229n9; Ferrivecchi, 98n16; Forcella, 66n16, 198n10, 253n15; Gelsi, 67n17, 108n11; Giudecca, 107n9, 388n23; Lancieri, 65n14; Lavinaro, 66n20, 98n16; Loggia of Genoa, 66n19; Mandracchio, 96n14, 146n1; Mercato, 66n21, 385n13; Paduli, 147n9; Pendino, 65n11; Pertuso, 66n18; Piazza dell’Olmo, 65n13; Piazza Larga, 65n12, 253n15; Porta Capuana, 65n10; Porta Reale, 252n8; Porto, 65–66nn13–15; Posillipo, xxxv, xxxvii, 60n6, 66n22, 96n14, 175n21, 364n18; Sebeto (river), 232n20; Vomero, 239n2
Naples, city of: buildings and architecture of, 57n2, 93n2, 139n2, 190n8; government and administration of, 161n4, 386n18; natural phenomena in, 79n10, 193n25, 417n3; sanitary practices in, 26n21, 282n12, 285. See also Naples, areas or locations in
Naples, kingdom of, xxxv, lvii. See also Naples, towns or locations near
Naples, towns or locations near: Aprano, 42n1; Arco Felice, 252n13; Arzano, 353n2; Astroni, 147n9; Baia, 252n14; Barra, 249n1; Benevento, 52n8, 355n6; Capua, 434n9; Cascano, 67n23; Casoria, 32n1, 353n2; Chiunzo, 348n5; Gioi, 46n6, 215n7; Marcianise, 276n4; Marigliano 3n3; Melito, 146n3; Miano, 23n4; Panicocoli, 277n5; Pantano, 193n11; Pascarola, 15n9; Patria (lake), 161n5; Pomigliano d’Arco, 189n2; Pozzuoli, 46n7, 175n21; Resina, 189n3; Salerno, 240n8; Sarno (river), 99n21, 242n12; Sorrento, 363n17; Vaiano, 28n27
Neapolitan dialect tradition, xvii–xviii, xliv–xlv. See also Cortese, Giulio Cesare; Lo cunto de li cunti: Neapolitan dialect, use of in; Sgruttendio, Felippe de Scafato
novella, genre of, xx, xlv,xlvii, 10n26. See also Boccaccio, Giovanni
ll Novellino, xlvii
numerology, 226n6
Ong, Ealter, lviii
Orlando Furioso. See Ariosto, Ludovico
Ovid, 6n15, 84n4, 102n32, 207n2, 267–68nn11–12, 339n4, 383n4, 399n5
painting and artistic practices, 29nn31–32, 366n6, 410n7
Panchatantra, xlvii, 427
pastoral, genre of, xxxvii, 104, 342n8
Penzer, Norman M. See translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
Perrault, Chrles, xiii, xxv, liv, lix, 145, 160, 276, 346, 422, 437
Petrarca, Francesco (Petrarch), xvii–xviii, xliv, 118n46, 197n4, 246n21, 274n12, 379n5
Petrarchan tradition, xxxix, 117n39
Petrini, Mario, xiv, xliii
le piacevoli notti. See Straparola, Giovan Francesco
Picone, Michelangelo, xiv, 393n1
Pitré Giuseppe, xlix, 3, 22, 32, 42, 49, 56, 63, 91, 123n5, 124n7, 124n13, 125n20, 125n22, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 168, 185, 256, 293n8, 313, 319, 337, 346, 387
plants, 23n5, 51n2, 53n11, 78n8, 107n7, 136nn6–7, 195n2, 229n8, 231n18, 284n16, 308n21, 309n23, 358n10, 371n11, 381n7, 435n11, 451n17. See also medicine, remedies and treatments
Plautus, 7n17, 179n32, 189, 366n4
Pliny (the Elder), 37n16, 58n4, 93n5, 142n4, 297n2, 335n14, 361n15. See also animals; plants
Plutarch, 29n35
popular culture: beliefs, proverbs, and sayings, 33n4, 58n3, 152n4, 154n7, 161n3, 163n12, 176n24, 186n1, 269n1, 283n13, 320n3, 340n6, 363n17, 376n2; customs and usages, 25n17, 110n22, 115n35, 131n8, 150n10, 156n10, 165n14, 188n2, 226n3, 261n10, 266n9, 287n3, 447n8; festivals, 117n40, 309n26; figures of, 244n17; gestures, symbolic, 100n25, 146n6, 252n12, 455n3; objects used in daily life, 29nn33–34, 98n18, 162n8, 178n28, 195nn1–2, 223n25, 298n4, 309n24, 371n12, 382, 409n5, 425n4; practices of daily life, 99n22, 152n3, 315nn1–2, 329n5, 409n6. See also carnival; chapbooks and pamphlets; cosmetic practices; dance; death, practices related to; fairs, feast days, and festivals; fashion and clothing; food; games; marriage, practices related to; music; medicine: remedies and treatments; Neapolitan dialect tradition; pregnancy and birth, practices related to; spectacle and entertainment; theater
Porcelli, Bruno, l
Porta, Giambattista della, 369n10
portraits, literary, lvi
pregnancy and birth, practices related to, 10n24, 35n14, 128n3, 150n10, 164n13, 287n2
Propp, Vladimir, l
prostitution, 5n12, 22n2, 27–28nn24–25, 60n6, 103n33, 114n30, 114n32, 115n34, 216n10, 229n9, 235n1, 267n10, 274n13, 394nn3–4,
proverbs, use of, xlvii. See also popular culture: beliefs, proverbs and sayings
Pulci, Luigi, 3n1. See also epic, tradition of
questione della lingua [Italian language debates], xliv. See also Neapolitan dialect tradition; Tuscan vernacular, as national language
Rabelais, François, xviii, 399n4
Rak, Michele, xliii See also translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
Renaissance, traditions of, lv, 228n7, 253n6
Röhrich, Lutz, l
romance, genre of, 24n12, 89n13, 171n12, 193n22, 366n3
Sanctis, Francesco de, xxvii
Sannazaro, Jacopo, 102n32. See also pastoral, genre of
Sarnelli, Pompeo, xlix
Schenda, Rudolf, 3. See also translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
school: modern Italian, xxiv–xxv, xxvi; practices, 306n8, 385n12; texts and exercises, 168n1, 177n25, 227n4, 306nn12–13
science, 118nn42–43, 309n25, 435n12
seasons and months, beliefs related to, 10n25, 70n28, 190n7, 193n18, 405nn6–7
sex, lx
Sgruttendio, Felippe de Scafato, xliv, 4n5, 8n21, 124n12, 205n1. See also Neapolitan dialect trandition
Shakespeare, William, xviii, xxxv, 126n32, 427
Simone, Roberto de, xliii, 93n3. See also translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
Skanderbeg (Giorgio Castriota), 14n8, 70n30, 252n9
slaves, 7n18
social classes: lower class, 350n10; middle class, 241n10, 304n3; nobility, 73n35, 98n16, 109nn17–19, 191n9, 235n2, 241n10, 332n7
spectacle and entertainment, 4n9, 170n9, 178n30, 288n6, 309n26, 351n13, 442n9, 449n14. See also carnival; dance; fountains; games; music; popular culture; theater
spinning, 55n12, 79n12, 253n18, 323n11
Straparola, Giovan Francesco, xlviii, 32, 63, 145, 151, 160, 303, 337, 346, 376, 397, 427, 432
Tanant, Myriam, See translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
tarantulism, 454n2
Tasso, Torquato, 80n13
taverns, 261n10, 288n4, 420n5
Taylor, John Edward. See translations of Lo cunto de li cunti
theater, 28n29, 104, 252n11, 259n4, 283n15, 288n6, 442n9. See also carnival; commedia dell’arte; Gozzi, Carlo; Guarini, Giovan Battista; Plautus; spectacle and entertainment
trades and professions: general, 16n11; barber, 102n28; charlatan, 176n22; clothes-seller, 37n17; counterfeiter, 105n1, 135n4, 229n12, 433n7; fishmonger, 147n8; goldsmith, 16n13, 307n18; innkeeper, 16n14; policeman, 29n34. See also agriculture, practices related to; commerce, practices related to; judicial system; spinning
translations of Lo cunto de li cunti: general, lxiii–lxvi; Richard Burton, xiii, xlii, Benedetto Croce, xiii, xliii, lxiii–lxvi; Françoise Decroisette, xiv, xliii; Ruggero Guarini, xiv, xliii; Felix Liebrecht, xiii, xlii; Norman M. Penzer, xiv, xliii, lxiii–lxvi; Michele Rak, xiv, xliii; Rudolf Schenda, xiv, xliii; Roberto de Simone, xliii; Myriam Tanant, xiv; John Edward Taylor, xiii, xlii
Troyes, Chrétien de, 366n3
Tuscan vernacular, as national language, xvii–xviii, xliv, 259n9
unification, Italian, xxi–xxii
Venuti, Lawrence, lxvi
Vermeer, Johannes, xxv
Vicaria, court of the, 19n18, 82n15, 170n8, 311n30. See also judicial system
viceroys, of kingdom of Naples, 25n17, 64n2, 131n8, 252n8, 259n7, 350n10
villanella, xliv, 84n3, 95n11, 294n13, 395n8. See also music: songs
Virgil, 10n23, 35n13, 51n4, 104, 142n4, 175n21, 247n23, 358n10, 365n1
virtue, theme of, lii, 13n2
weapons, 5n11, 52n5, 67n24, 74n37, 88n11, 107n10, 162n10, 166n15, 357n1, 407n1. See also military practices
wine, 98n19, 125n30, 215n6, 387n21
Wunderkammer, 25n14
Zipes, Jack, xx, xliii
Zito, Bartolomeo, 28n25, 34n10, 123–24n6, 125n24
Zoroaster, 4n4
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1. Jack Zipes, Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, rev. ed. 2002) 6.
2. Cited in Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience, trans. Liz Heron (New York: Verso, 1993) 60.
3. Agamben 60.
4. Agamben 61.
*. Unless otherwise noted, all references throughout this volume to Croce are to his 1925 edition of Il Pentamerone, and all references to Rak are to his 1986 bilingual edition of Lo cunto de li cunti.
1. The biographical information included in this section is based principally on the studies by Benedetto Croce (1891), Vittorio Imbriani, Michele Rak (1986), and Salvatore Nigro (1979).
2. Cit. Fulco 1985, 402.
3. Rak 1048.
4. See Rak, 1046–53, for a complete list of all Basile’s published works, including single poems and other short compositions (villanelle, canzonette, etc.).
5. Rak, La maschera 65.
6. Lo cunto de li cunti, ed. Petrini 575–76. Another acid depiction of court life can be found in the eclogue “The Crucible” as well as in a number of the tales themselves (e.g., tale 3.7, “Corvetto”).
7. Cit. Imbriani 36–37.
8. Rak 1057.
9. Getto 381.
10. Rak, Napoli gentile 299.
11. Porcelli 197–98.
12. Warnke, Versions of Baroque 19.
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13. Ong, Orality and Literacy 31–57.
14. Venuti, The Scandals of Translation 10.
*. This tale corresponds to Aarne/Thompson tale type 437, The Supplanted Bride. References to tale types follow the classification of Aarne and Thompson (The Types of the Folktale) and will henceforth be designated in the form “AT 437.” For these indications I have relied heavily on Rudolf Schenda’s German edition of The Tale of Tales (2000).
Croce notes, with regard to the frame tale, “The beginning is common to a great number of fairy tales [princesses or fairies who do not laugh are also found in tales 1.3, 1.10, 3.5, etc.]. For the adventure of the old woman, see, especially, Giuseppe Pitrè’s Fiabe e leggende poplari siciliane 13 and 66, and Vittorio Imbriani’s Novellaja fiorentina 24. [. . .] Also very common is the particular of the three objects given by the fairies to attract the attention of the lost lover” (Lo cunto de li cunti, 284).
1. “Travelers and naturalists narrate that hunters, when they see a monkey, put on and take off a pair of boots, which they then leave in sight of the monkey after having smeared them with bird-lime. The monkey, attempting to imitate them, remains ensnared in the unusual footwear. There is, perhaps, also an echo of the ancient fable, told, among others, by Firenzuola, of the monkey and the oak tree, and of Margutte’s adventure with the Barbary ape (in Luigi Pulci’s Morgante 19, 147–48)” (Croce 539).
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