Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

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INDEX 457 [N.b.: Material indexed includes the foreword, illustrator’s note, introduction, and footnotes, but not the text of the tales.] academies: Academy of the Incogniti, 7; Academy of the Oziosi, 5; Academy of the Stravaganti, 4, 5 Aesop, 282n7 Agamben, Giorgio, xxviii agriculture, practices related to, 62n3, 79n8, 104n7, 240n21, 295n1, 397n8 Alamanni, Luigi, 217 Amicis, Edmondo de, xxvi Andersen, Hans Christian, 115 animals, land, 63n7, 108n2, 135n37, 156n9, 207n21, 227n17, 299n1; beliefs and superstitions regarding, 102n2, 117n5, 122n21, 155n8, 160n4, 273n1, 299n2, 323n9, 332n8, 334n14, 353n8, 356n12, 357n15 animals, sea, 59n37, 370n.16; beliefs and superstitions regarding, 85n4, 357n15 anticlassicist tradition of Renaissance, 236n7 antiquity, classical: authors of, 36n4, 65n12, 350n1, 369n15, 378n7, 389n1; cities of, 356n13; historical figures of, 59n38, 66n16, 137–38n46, 363n9, 378n6, 418n2. See also Aristotle; Herodotus; Homer; mythology, classical, figures of; Ovid; Plutarch; Virgil Apuleius, 14, 404. See also Cupid and Psyche, myth of Arabian Nights, 14, 17, 70, 326, 329n4 Aretino, Pietro, 236n7 Ariosto, Ludovico, 105n13, 126, 128n4, 129n13, 178n6, 209n5, 317n3, 364n10, 415n3, 423n8. See also epic, genre of Aristotle, 42n27, 137–38n46, 391n7 Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d’, xiii, 61, 83, 336 banditry, 111n6, 170n3, 359n16, 378n1. See also crime and criminals Baroque, 1, 14, 22 Basile, Adriana, 4, 5, 6, 7, 49n20, 55n17 Basile, Giambattista: life of, 3–8. Italian works: Aretusa, 6; Le avventurose disavventure, 4, 5, 341n8, 360n18; Egloghe amorose e lugubri, 5; Il guerriero amante, 6; Immagini delle più belle dame napoletane, 7; Madriali et ode, 5, 6, 7; Monte di Parnaso, 7, 287n15; Opere poetiche, 5; Il pianto della vergine, 5; philological editions, 6; Del Teagene, 7; Venere addolorata, 5. Neapolitan works: Le muse napoletane, 6, 7, 197n4, 296nn12–13, 346n5. See also Lo cunto de li cunti Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de, 280 Bello, Francesco, 273 Bible, 133 n28, 261n1, 306n4, 395n3, Biondo, M. A., 152 birth, practices related to. See pregnancy and birth, practice related to boats and ships: types of, 120n14, 228n20, 246n3, 266n12, 275n4; maritime practices, 396n5 Boccaccio, Giovanni, xvii, xix, 11, 12, 14, 18, 42n26, 93n18, 116n1, 137–38n46, 203, 314, 320n2, 418. See also novella, genre of Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 129n13, 209n5, 317n3. See also epic, genre of Burani, Alessandra, 30 Burton, Richard. See translations of Lo cunto de li cunti Callot, Jacques, 36n6 Calvino, Italo, 16, 24 cantari, 14 Index 458 capital punishment, 62n5, 66n17, 79n7, 79n9, 91n7, 92n8, 96n26, 98n32, 127n3, 129n14, 150n7, 239n20, 281n6, 304n12, 312n27, 312n29, 313n31, 328n3, 343n12, 379nn13–14, 423n5, 439n15. See also crime and criminals; judicial system carnival, 36n6, 67n20, 173n9, 263n4, 301n5, 310n26, 355n11. See also Cockaigne, land of; fairs and festivals; spectacles and entertainment; theater Castiglione, Baldassar, 23, 385n1 Caumont de la Force, Charlotte-Rose, 147 Celano, Carlo, 92n14, 269n7 Chanson de Roland, 44n7. See also epic, genre of chapbooks, news-sheets, and pamphlets, 42n28, 134n31, 138n48, 320nn1–2, 339n7, 359n16, 434n2 church, Catholic: liturgy of, 112n7, 117n6, 310n22, 379n8; practices related to, 108n1, 121n17, 375n6; saints of, xxiv– xxv, 406n2 Cocchiara, Giuseppe, 320–21n2 Cockaigne, land of, 320n2. coins and currency, 41n22, 52n2, 68n22, 74n8, 91n3, 103n3, 104n6, 127n2, 138n47, 164n4, 184n3, 210n9, 379n12, 387n6, 423n7 commedia dell’arte, 9, 206n12, 258n11, 261n2. See also theater commerce, practices related to, 107n15, 381n22. See also trades and professions Cortese, Giulio Cesare, 4–5, 6, 11, 36n5, 40n21, 70, 143n2. See also Neapolitan dialect tradition cosmetic practices, 86n5, 99n36, 116n1, 150n4 courts, 5–6, 13, 15, 17–18, 27, 307n7. See also Lo cunto de li cunti, autobiographical references in Crane, Thomas Frederick 261, 314 crime and criminals, 91n6, 119n13, 132n23, 150n7, 270n10, 307n5, 313n32, 379n8, 423nn3–6. See also banditry; capital punishment; judicial system Croce, Benedetto, xxvi, 16, 30. See also translations of Lo cunto de li cunti Croce, Giulio Cesare, 70 cuckoldry, 63n10, 104n7, 131n21, 185n4, 197n4, 211nn10–11, 342n10, 395n4 Lo cunto de li cunti: audience of, extratextual, 20–21; audience and tale-tellers of, textual, 18, 42n26; autobiographical references in, 13, 264n9, 380n16; as Baroque text, 1, 16, 18, 21 (see also Baroque); frame tale, 17–19, 23; Neapolitan dialect, use of in, 11–12, 20; oral narration, techniques of in, 23–24; parodic function of, xvii, xix, 13, 15, 21–22; preambles, 43n2; publishing history of, 8–10 cuntu, genre of, xix-xx Cupid and Psyche, myth of, 14, 169, 199, 404. See also Apuleius dance, 36nn5–6, 144n9, 180n13, 215n1, 248n13, 291n11, 292n13, 301n5, 348n11, 351n4, 438n11 Dante, xvii–xviii, 11 death, practices related...