Fedro: Le Storie del Gatto

Title

en_US Fedro: Le Storie del Gatto

en_US Collana Classica Mondiale #38

Description

en_US Language note: Italian

en_US Edited and Introduced by Ian Bell

Creator

en_US Phaedrus See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Pescador?

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:26Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US Here is a very large pamphlet of sixteen pages remarkable for its slick bright illustrations. Included are two traditional cat stories and two into which cats are brought who were not involved in Phaedrus' version. The two traditional stories are The Cat, the Eagle, and the Sow and The Cats Carrying a Rooster on a Litter. The two further stories are The Mother Cat and Her Young and The Tortoise Who Wanted to Fly. The cat enters the third story as the pleading mother who needs a place to have her young. Usually, as in Phaedrus, a dog asks a dog for her home; here a cat asks a dog. The cat enters the fourth story as a friend of the tortoise. The story ends with the cat weeping big tears over her dead friend. Not only is there no cat in any version of this fable that I know, but also Phaedrus does not even have this fable about the tortoise and the eagle! The cat on the cover is a hippie girl with a short skirt dancing to a rock band of mice. And do not miss the baby boar at the base of the tree in the first story shooting a missile at his sibling's leaf boat. The illustrations for this last story have a strong Swiss or German character. The eagle dresses like a Swiss or Bavarian, and mice in German or Swiss clothing offer the cat a glass of wine as the cat weeps. This pamphlet is in a series, from which I have four other volumes. Like them, it has simple questions on the inside of the back cover. The back cover itself lists the fifty books in the series.

Identifier

en_US 4031 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79371

Language

en_US ita

Publisher

en_US Emmerre Libri, s.r.l.

en_US Naples

Subject

en_US PZ44.2.P43 St 1996 See all items with this value

en_US Fedro See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole