Roman Legends
- Subtitle
- A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. FILAGRANATA.4. THE THREE LOVE-ORANGES.15. PALOMBELLETTA.16. LA CENORIENTOLA.17. VACCARELLA.18. GIUSEPPE L’EBREO.9. THE KING WHO GOES OUT TO DINNER.110. THE POT OF MARJORAM.111. THE POT OF RUE.112. KING OTHO.113. MARIA WOOD.114. LA CANDELIERA.115. THE TWO HUNCHBACKED BROTHERS.116. THE DARK KING.117. MONSU MOSTRO.118. THE ENCHANTED ROSE-TREE.119. SCIOCCOLONE.120. TWELVE FEET OF NOSE.121. A YARD OF NOSE.122. THE CHICORY-SELLER AND THE ENCHANTED PRINCESS.123. THE TRANSFORMATION-DONKEY.124. SIGNOR LATTANZIO.25. HOW CAJUSSE WAS MARRIED.126. WHEN JESUS CHRIST WANDERED ON EARTH.27. PIETRO BAILLIARDO.128. S. GIOVANNI BOCCA D’ORO.29. DON GIOVANNI.30. THE PENANCE OF SAN GIULIANO.31. THE PILGRIMS.32. SANTA VERDANA.33. SAN SIDORO.34. THE FISHPOND OF ST. FRANCIS.135. ST. ANTHONY.36. ST. MARGARET OF CORTONA.37. ST. THEODORA.38. NUN BEATRICE.139. PADRE FILIPPO.40. THE PARDON OF ASISI.141. PADRE VINCENZO.42. PADRE FONTANAROSA.43. S. GIUSEPPE LABRE.144. THE TWELVE WORDS OF TRUTH.145. THE DEAD MAN IN THE OAK-TREE.146. THE DEAD MAN’S LETTER.147. THE WHITE SOUL.148. THE WHITE SERPENT.149. THE PROCESSION OF VELLETRI.50. SMALLER GHOST AND TREASURE STORIES AND FAMILY AND LOCAL TRADITIONS.51. SCIARRA COLONNA.52. THE MUNIFICENCE OF PRINCE BORGHESE.53. ‘POPE JOAN.’54. GIACINTA MARESCOTTI.55. PASQUINO.156. CÈCINGÙLO.57. THE WOOING OF CASSANDRO.158. I COCORNI.59. THE BEAUTIFUL ENGLISHWOMAN.60. THE ENGLISHMAN.61. THE MARRIAGE OF SIGNOR CAJUSSE.162. THE DAUGHTER OF COUNT LATTANZIO.163. BELLACUCCIA.64. THE SATYR.65. THE SATYRS.66. AMADEA.67. THE KING OF PORTUGAL.68. THE TWO FRIARS.169. THE PREFACE OF A FRANCISCAN.70. THE LENTEN PREACHER.71. ASS OR PIG.172. THE SEVEN CLODHOPPERS.173. THE LITTLE BIRD.174. THE DEVIL WHO TOOK TO HIMSELF A WIFE.175. THE ROOT.76. THE QUEEN AND THE TRIPE-SELLER.177. THE BAD-TEMPERED QUEEN.178. THE SIMPLE WIFE.179. THE FOOLISH WOMAN.180. THE BOOBY.181. THE GLUTTONOUS GIRL.182. THE GREEDY DAUGHTER.183. THE OLD MISER.184. THE MISERLY OLD WOMAN.185. THE BEGGAR AND THE CHICK-PEA.186. DOCTOR GRILLO.87. NINA.88. THE GOOD GRACE OF THE HUNCHBACK.189. THE VALUE OF SALT.90. THE PRINCESS AND THE GENTLEMAN.91. THE HAPPY COUPLE.192. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ROOM OF A HOTEL.193. THE COUNTESS’S CAT.194. WHY CATS AND DOGS ALWAYS QUARREL.195. THE CATS WHO MADE THEIR MASTER RICH.96. APPENDICES.97. Colophon