This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Well, gentlemen, here’s a tale that people have told time and again . . . . So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tale

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the p

"Here is the complete text of Beautiful Angiola and The Robber with a Witch's Head - plus two never-before translated stories. In the late nineteenth-century, L