Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. A list of the individual folktales follows.

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• 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