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Ancilotto, King of Provino is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 707: "The Three Golden Children" or "the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird".
- Italy
- Italian
- Fairy tale
- The Facetious Nights of Straparola
Ancilotto, King of Provino, takes to wife the daughter of a baker, and has by her three children. These, after much persecution at the hands of the king’s mother, are made known to their father through the strange working of certain water, and of an apple, and of a bird.
In another study, Bottigheimer argues that, due to the great similarities between Diyab's tale and Straparola's Ancilotto, The King of Provino, Diyab must have been acquainted with the Italian story during his lifetime.
- The Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
- ATU 707 (The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird; The Bird of Truth; The Three Golden Children; The Three Golden Sons)
Ancilotto, King of Provino is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson type 707: the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird.
Her source for the story was the Italian tale Ancilotto, King of Provino, the oldest known variant of Aarne-Thompson type 707 ("The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple and the Speaking Bird").
Ancilotto, King of Provino is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson type 707: the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird.
Ancilotto, King of Provino is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. It is Aarne-Thompson type 707: the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird. It is the oldest known variant of this tale, and influenced Madame d'Aulnoy's Princess Belle-Etoile.
