Italian Folktales
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Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. A list of the individual folktales follows.
- Dauntless Little John
- The Man Wreathed in Seaweed
- The Ship with Three Decks
- The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
- And Seven!
- Body-without-Soul
- Money Can Do Everything
- The Little Shepherd
- Silver Nose
- The Count's Beard
- The Little Girl Sold with the Pears
- The Snake
- The Three Castles
- The Prince Who Married a Frog
- The Parrot
- The Twelve Oxen
- Crack and Crook
- The Canary Prince
- King Crin
- Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese
- The Pot of Marjoram
- The Billiards Player
- Animal Speech
- The Three Cottages
- The Peasant Astrologer
- The Wolf and the Three Girls
- The Land Where One Never Dies
- The Devotee of St. Joseph
- The Three Crones
- The Crab Prince
- Silent for Seven Years
- The Dead Man's Palace
- Pome and Peel
- The Cloven Youth
- Invisible Grandfather
- The King of Denmark's Son
- Petie Pete Versus Witch Bea-Witch
- Quack, Quack! Stick to My Back!
- The Happy Man's Shirt
- One Night in Paradise
- Jesus and St. Peter in Friuli
- The Magic Ring
- The Dead Man's Arm
- The Science of Laziness
- Fair Brow
- The Stolen Crown
- The King's Daughter Who Could Never Get Enough Figs
- The Three Dogs
- Uncle Wolf
- Giricoccola
- Tabagnino the Hunchback
- The King of the Animals
- The Devil's Breeches
- Dear as Salt
- The Queen of the Three Mountains of Gold
- Lose Your Temper, and You Lose Your Bet
- The Feathered Ogre
- The Dragon with Seven Heads
- Bellinda and the Monster
- The Shepherd at Court
- The Sleeping Queen
- The Son of the Merchant from Milan
- Monkey Palace
- Rosina in the Oven
- The Salamanna Grapes
- The Enchanted Palace
- Buffalo Head
- The King of Portugal's Son
- Fanta-Ghiro the Beautiful
- The Old Woman's Hide
- Olive
- Catherine, Sly Country Lass
- The Traveler from Turin
- The Daughter of the Sun
- The Dragon and the Enchanted Filly
- The Florentine
- Ill-Fated Royalty
- The Golden Ball
- Fioravante and Beautiful Isolina
- Fearless Simpleton
- The Milkmaid Queen
- The Story of Campriano
- The North Wind's Gift
- The Sorceress's Head
- Apple Girl
- Prezzemolina
- The Fine Greenbird
- The King in the Basket
- The One-Handed Murderer
- The Two Hunchbacks
- Pete and the Ox
- The King of the Peacocks
- The Palace of the Doomed Queen
- The Little Geese
- Water in the Basket
- Fourteen
- Jack Strong, Slayer of Five Hundred
- Crystal Rooster
- A Boat for Land and Water
- The Neapolitan Soldier
- Belmiele and Belsole
- The Haughty Prince
- Wooden Maria
- Louse Hide
- Cicco Petrillo
- Nero and Bertha
- The Love of the Three Pomegranates
- Joseph Ciufolo, Tiller-Flutist
- Bella Venezia
- The Mangy One
- The Wildwood King
- Mandorlinfiore
- The Three Blind Queens
- Hunchback Wryneck Hobbler
- One-Eye
- The False Grandmother
- Frankie-Boy's Trade
- Shining Fish
- Miss North Wind and Mr. Zephyr
- The Palace Mouse and the Garden Mouse
- The Moor's Bones
- The Chicken Laundress
- Crack, Crook, and Hook
- First Sword and Last Broom
- Mrs. Fox and Mr. Wolf
- The Five Scapegraces
- Ari-Ari, Donkey, Donkey, Money, Money!
- The School of Salamanca
- The Tale of the Cats
- Chick
- The Slave Mother
- The Sire Wife
- The Princesses Wed to the First Passer-By
- Liombruno
- Cannelora
- Filo d'Oro and Filomena
- The Thirteen Bandits
- The Three Orphans
- Sleeping Beauty and Her Children
- The Handmade King
- The Turkey Hen
- The Three Chicory Gatherers
- Beauty-with-the-Seven-Dresses
- Serpent King
- The Widow and the Brigand
- The Crab with the Golden Eggs
- Nick Fish
- Grattula-Beddattula
- Misfortune
- Pippina the Serpent
- Catherine the Wise
- The Ismailian Merchant
- The Thieving Dove
- Dealer in Peas and Beans
- The Sultan with the Itch
- The Wife Who Lived on Wind
- Wormwood
- The King of Spain and the English Milord
- The Bejeweled Boot
- The Left-Hand Squire
- Rosemary
- Lame Devil
- Three Tales by Three Sons of Three Merchants
- The Dove Girl
- Jesus and St. Peter in Sicily
- The Barber's Timepiece
- The Count's Sister
- Master Francesco Sit-Down-and-Eat
- The Marriage of Queen and a Bandit
- The Seven Lamb Heads
- The Two Sea Merchants
- Out in the World
- A Boat Loaded with…
- The King's Son in the Henhouse
- The Mincing Princess
- The Great Narbone
- Animal Talk and the Nosy Wife
- The Calf with the Golden Horns
- The Captain and the General
- The Peacock Feather
- The Garden Witch
- The Mouse with the Long Tail
- The Two Cousins
- The Two Muleteers
- Giovannuzza the Fox
- The Child that Fed the Crucifix
- Steward Truth
- The Foppish King
- The Princess with the Horns
- Giufa
- Fra Ignazio
- Solomon's Advice
- The Man Who Robbed the Robbers
- The Lions' Grass
- The Convent of Nuns and the Monastery of Monks
- The Male Fern
- St. Anthony's Gift
- March and the Shepherd
- John Balento
- Jump into My Sack