by Thomas Crane
About Thomas Crane
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Thomas
Frederick Crane
(1844-1927)
Professor Emeritus
Romance Languages
Cornell University
(1868-1924)
Tales
from
Italian Popular Tales (1885)
The
Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird
The
Curse of the Seven Children
How
the Devil Married Three Sisters
The
King Who Wanted a Beautiful Wife
The
Story of Catherine and Her Fate
The
Shepherd Who Made the King's Daughter Laugh
Vineyard
I Was and Vineyard I Am
The
Parrot Which Tells Three Stories: Third Version
The
Man, the Serpent, and the Fox
The
Lord, St. Peter, and the Apostles
The
Lord, St. Peter, and the Blacksmith
In
This World One Weeps and Another Laughs
The
Story of St. James of Galicia
Of
a Godfather and a Godmother of
St. John Who Made Love
The
Parrish Priest of San Marcuola
The
Gentleman Who Kicked a Skull
The
Cock and That Wished to Become Pope
Firrazzanu's
Wife and the Queen
Additional Tales
Italian Popular Tales is a treasure trove of scholarly research as well as fairy tale texts. For now, I am only adding the text of the 109 tales Crane included in the book, not his extensive commentary and notes, although I highly recommend them for further reading.
Further Reading
Crane,
Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1885.
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