Der Nussbaum im Campanile

Title

en_US Der Nussbaum im Campanile

en_US dtv klassik

Description

Leonardo da Vinci; Ubersetzung von Isolde Rieger

Creator

en_US Da Vinci, Leonardo See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Da Vinci, Leonardo

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:09Z

2017-07

en_US 1991

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US This is one of several books I found as this beloved bookshop was going out of business. Sabine Rahlf remembered me and remembered her father speaking of me. How kind! And how sad to see this shop coming to an end! I visited the spot this past summer of 2019, two years later, out of fondness for the place. This little book introduces itself in lovely fashion with a short fable on its back cover. A mule fell asleep on the ice of a deep lake. His hooves melted the ice. He woke up drowning. The book has four main sections: Bestiarium; Fabeln; Schöne Schwänke; and Prophezeiungen. The bestiarium has 95 segments on some 30 pages. Many of the 95 items are quite brief. There are 56 fables. I tried a couple more of Leonardo's fables. The moth flew straight into the candle's flame and fell with its light wings burnt (54). "All I wanted was to enjoy the light. Why didn't I prefer the sun to the false light from suet?" The river (70) carried so many rocks and so much ground with him in his bed that he was forced to change his course. One of the "schöne Schwänke" has someone asking a painter why he paints such beautiful lifeless objects but made his living children so ugly. "The objects I paint by day; the kids I make by night." One of the prophecies: "People will throw away their own food." (Sure, by sowing seed.) Leonardo is always provocative!

Identifier

en_US 11790 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125499

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US deutscher taschenbuch verlag

en_US Munich

Subject

en_US PQ4627.L38N8 1991 See all items with this value

Leonardo da Vinci See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value