Thomas Frederick Crane’s Italian Popular Tales is one of the great nineteenth-century folklore collections — a systematic gathering of fairy tales, animal fables, legends, and novelle from every region of Italy, accompanied by scholarly comparative notes. First published in 1885, it opened up Italian oral tradition to the English-speaking world and remains a standard reference in folklore studies.
Packed with witches, clever peasants, enchanted princes, and cunning animals, these tales reveal an Italian storytelling tradition as rich and varied as that of the brothers Grimm. This free EPUB is cleanly formatted for any device.