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The Nonexistent Knight (Italian: Il cavaliere inesistente) is an allegorical fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, first published in Italian in 1959 and in English translation in 1962. The tale explores questions of identity, integration with society, and virtue through the adventures of Agilulf, a medieval knight who exemplifies ...
The Three Princes of Serendip is the English version of the story Peregrinaggio di tre giovani figliuoli del re di Serendippo, [1] published by Michele Tramezzino in Venice in 1557. Tramezzino claimed to have heard the story from one Cristoforo Armeno , who had translated the Persian fairy tale into Italian, adapting Book One of Amir Khusrau 's ...
Tale of the Man of Khorasan, His Son and His Tutor; Tale of the Singer and the Druggist; Tale of the King Who Kenned the Quintessence of Things; Tale of the Richard Who Married His Beautiful Daughter to the Poor Old Man; Tale of the Sage and His Three Sons; Tale of the Prince who Fell in Love With the Picture; Tale of the Fuller and His Wife ...
The Nonexistent Knight by Pino Zac, 1969 (Italian animated film based on the novel) Amores dificiles by Ana Luisa Ligouri, 1983 (13' Mexican short) L'Aventure d'une baigneuse by Philippe Donzelot, 1991 (14' French short based on The Adventure of a Bather in Difficult Loves )
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 551, "The Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful Remedy for their father" or "Water of Life". ". This tale type concerns a king that is dying or going blind, and sends his three sons to find the only thing that can cure
In a Finnish tale translated as Alkonyat, Éjfél és Virradat ("Twilight, Midnight and Daybreak"), a king's servant has three sons, born at different times of the day: Twilight, born at sunset; Midnight, born in the middle of the night, and Daybreak, born at dawn. One day, the king's three daughter, who lived all their lives sheltered in the ...
Sir Isumbras and his wife – for she has armed herself as a knight – face the forces alone. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, three mysterious knights suddenly arrive on the battlefield, one riding a lion, another riding a leopard and the third a unicorn. They turn out to be Sir Isumbras' lost sons, come to aid their parents in battle.
The Three Golden Children refers to a series of folktales related to the motif of the calumniated wife, numbered K2110.1 in the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.The name refers to a cycle of tales wherein a woman gives birth to children of wondrous aspect, but her children are taken from her by jealous relatives or by her mother-in-law, and her husband punishes her in some harsh way.