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The folktale written tradition has obscure origins. Folktale is a very old and very widespread literary genre which, originally, belonged only to purely oral tradition. With very few exceptions, it takes on written form relatively late, according to current opinion, with Straparola (1550-53) and Basile (1630-34). This article attempts to demonstrate, by contrast, that the written tradition of folktales has in fact its origins in Italy, but almost two centuries before the Piacevoli Notti. It began, in the second half of the XIVth century, with the cantari, little poems of popular taste, in ottava rima, which, for the first time in European literature, systematically explored the folktale tradition, and borrowed from it a large number of narrative frameworks. Tales such as Liombruno, Bel Gherardino, Campriano and so on, are, from every point of view, real folktales in literary form : they opened the way from Märchen to literature, and enjoyed great success for several centuries, deeply influencing both literature and popular narrative.La tradition écrite du conte populaire a des racines obscures. Le conte populaire est un genre littéraire très ancien et très diffusé qui, à l’origine,

Author

Carlo Donà

Language

FR