Bella Venezia
"Bella Venezia" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Calvino selected this variant, where the heroine meets robbers, rather than others that contain dwarfs, because he believed the dwarfs were probably an importation from Germany.[1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White. Others of this type include Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, Nourie Hadig, La petite Toute-Belle, and Myrsina.[2]
Synopsis
An innkeeper named Bella Venezia asked her customers whether they had ever seen a more beautiful woman than herself. When they said they had not, she cut the price for their stay in half, but one day, a traveller said that he had seen such a woman: her own daughter. Bella Venezia doubled the price of his stay instead of halving it; and had her daughter shut in a tower with a single window.
But the daughter escaped and wandered until she saw twelve robbers order a cave open and shut: "Open up, desert!" and "Close up, desert!" She snuck inside and cleaned up the place, and then stole some of their food before hiding. The robbers set watch, but each robber waited outside, for the person to sneak in, and so did not catch her, until the chief robber waited inside and saw her. He told her not to be afraid: she could stay and be their little sister. But one day a robber went to Bella Venezia's inn, and told her that a girl they had with them was more beautiful than Bella.
A witch begged every day from the inn, and Bella Venezia promised her half her fortune if she could put an end to the daughter. The witch went into the forest as a pedlar, persuaded the girl to let her in, and while showing her a hair pin, thrust it into the girl's head. The robbers found her body, wept, and buried her in a hollow tree.
One day, a prince went hunting, and his dogs sniffed out the tree where the girl was buried. He took her body back to the castle and could not bear to be away from her. His mother was angry and said that he could at least fix her hair. This revealed the pin. When it was pulled out, the girl awoke, and the prince married her.
See also
- Ali Baba
- Snow White
- Udea and her Seven Brothers
References
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- "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree"
- "Snow-White-Fire-Red"
- "Richilde"
- "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights"
- "Nourie Hadig"
- "Myrsina"
- "Bella Venezia"
- Disney franchise
- Snow White
- Snow White (Disney)
- The Queen
- Evil Queen (Disney)
- The Seven Dwarfs
- The Magic Mirror
- The Huntsman
- Prince Charming
- Snow White (1902)
- Snow White (1916)
- Betty Boop in Snow-White (1933)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
- The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue (1951)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1955)
- Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
- Snow White (1961)
- The New Adventures of Snow White (1969)
- A Snow White Christmas (1980)
- Neberte nám princeznú (1981)
- Hófehér (1984)
- Snow White (1987)
- Happily Ever After (1989)
- The Magic Riddle (1991)
- Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
- Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001)
- 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (2004)
- 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006)
- Snow White: The Sequel (2007)
- Sydney White (2007)
- Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple (2009)
- Blanche Neige (2009)
- Grimm's Snow White (2012)
- Mirror Mirror (2012)
- Blancanieves (2012)
- Snow White: A Deadly Summer (2012)
- The Seventh Dwarf (2014)
- Charming (2018)
- Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
- Snow White and the Evil Queen (2024)
- Snow White (2025)
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series
- The 10th Kingdom (miniseries)
- The Charmings (sitcom)
- White Snow (1995)
- The Legend of Snow White (anime series)
- Prétear (anime series)
- Once Upon a Time (drama series)
- "The Enchanted Feast" (Sofia the First episode)
- The 7D (TV series)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912 play)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (musical)
- A Snow White Christmas (musical)
- The Magic Mirror (1903)
- Fables (comics)
- Mira, Mirror (novel)
- Mirror Mirror (novel)
- Red as Blood (short story)
- Schneewittchen (opera)
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (attraction)
- Snow White's Enchanted Wish (attraction)
- Snow White Grotto (attraction)
- Snow White: Happily Ever After (video game)
- "Snow, Glass, Apples" (short story)
- The Serpent's Shadow (novel)
- Fairest (novel)
- Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (short story collection)
- Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros. (OVA)
- Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (video game)
- Fairytale Fights (video game)
- Snow White with the Red Hair (manga)
- RWBY (TV series)
- The Wolf Among Us (video game)
- Dark Parables (video game)
- Six-Gun Snow White (novel)
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