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Italian Folktales (Fiabe italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. Calvino began the project in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp 's Morphology of the Folktale ; his intention was to emulate the Straparola in producing a popular collection of Italian fairy tales for the general reader. [ 1 ]
In Italian folklore, the Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve (the night of January 5) in a similar way to Santa Claus or the Three Magi Kings. [2] A popular belief is that her name derives from the Feast of Epiphany (Italian: Festa dell'Epifania). [3] [4]
His posture ignores the four children that cling to his body as if he were unaware they were there—the youngest is curled at his feet and possibly dead. In the source text, Ugolino grieves the agonizing death of his children and whether he eats his children's flesh is unclear to the reader, as it is in the sculpture. [ 2 ]
Cristina and Violetta Djeordsevic [1] [n 1] or Ebrehmovich [4] [n 2] were Italian Roma sisters aged 13 and 11 [n 3] who drowned in the sea at the public beach at Torregaveta in the Metropolitan City of Naples on 19 July 2008. [1]
Movies like "Coco" and Day of the Dead rituals invite children and adults to approach death not with sadness or fear but as a tribute to life itself, experts say.
For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a black-and-white photo of himself as a young American soldier with a broad smile with three impeccably dressed Italian children he is credited ...
Other Gods and Goddesses of Italian Mythology include: Aradia is a folk Goddess of witchcraft. Carmenta is the Goddess of spells, known for chanting incantations in verse to ease the pains of women in labor and children facing illness. Februus is the Italian God of purification who lives in the underworld.
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia , an embalmer , to preserve her remains. [ 3 ]