Italian Popular Tales
By Thomas Frederick Crane
Cover: Peasant girl with spindle and distaff (1867), oil on canvas by Charles Caryl Coleman (1840-1928) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1928; painted 1867)
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Thomas Frederick Crane's 1885 collection of Italian folk tales from many regions, with notes. Giants, clever youngest sons and talking animals fill its pages. A scholar's gathering that still reads like stories. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.