Legends of Florence

About this eBook

Author

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903

Title

Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series

Credits

Transcribed from the 1895 David Nutt edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Folk literature, Italian -- Italy -- Florence

Category

Text

eBook-No.

32786

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32786

Release Date

June 12, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Legends of Florence Collected from the People
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI
5. 5.THE PILLS OF THE MEDICI
6. 6.FURICCHIA, OR THE EGG-WOMAN OF THE MERCATO VECCHIO
7. 7.THE LANTERNS OF THE STROZZI PALACE
8. 8.THE GOBLIN OF LA VIA DEL CORNO
9. 9.FRATE GIOCONDO, THE MONK OF SANTA MARIA NOVELLA
10. 10.THE LEGEND OF THE CROCE AL TREBBIO
11. 11.THE TWO FAIRIES OF THE WELL a legend of the via calzaioli
12. 12.THE STORY OF THE VIA DELLE SERVE SMARRITE
13. 13.THE BRONZE BOAR OF THE MERCATO NUOVO — THE FAIRY OF THE CAMPANILE, OR THE TOWER OF GIOTTO
14. 14.THE GOBLIN OF THE TOWER BELLA TRINITA, OR THE PORTA SAN NICCOLO
15. 15.THE GHOST OF MICHEL ANGELO
16. 16.THE APPARITION OF DANTE
17. 17.LEGENDS OF LA CERTOSA
18. 18.LEGENDS OF THE BRIDGES IN FLORENCE
19. 19.THE BASHFUL LOVER a legend of the chiesa santa lucia in the via de’ bardi
20. 20.LA FORTUNA a legend of the via de’ cerchi
21. 21.THE STORY OF THE UNFINISHED PALACE a legend of the via del proconsolo
22. 22.THE DEVIL OF THE MERCATO VECCHIO
23. 23.SEEING THAT ALL WAS RIGHT a legend of the porta a san nicolò
24. 24.THE ENCHANTED COW OF LA VIA VACCHERECCIA
25. 25.THE WITCH OF THE PORTA ALLA CROCE
26. 26.THE COLUMN OF COSIMO, OR DELLA SANTA TRINITA
27. 27.LEGENDS OF OR’ SAN MICHELE
28. 28.THE WITCH OF THE ARNO — LA BELLA STREGA. Nuova Canzonetta di Charles Godfrey Leland . — The Beautiful Witch. — Il Giardino d’Amore, o La Figlia del Re, e il Contino Stregone. — The Garden of Love, or The King’s Daughter and the Wizard Count.
29. 29.STORIES OF SAN MINIATO
30. 30.THE FRIAR’S HEAD OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE—THE LADY WHO CONFESSED FOR EVERYBODY—HOLY RELICS
31. 31.BIANCONE, THE GIANT STATUE IN THE SIGNORIA
32. 32.THE RED GOBLIN OF THE BARGELLO — LEGENDS OF SAN LORENZO the canon and the debtor, and the cats in the cloister
33. 33.LEGEND OF THE PIAZZA SAN BIAGIO
34. 34.THE SPIRIT OF THE PORTA SAN GALLO
35. 35.STORY OF THE PODESTÀ WHO WAS LONG ON HIS JOURNEY a legend of the duomo
36. 36.LEGENDS OF THE BOBOLI GARDENS: THE OLD GARDENER, AND THE TWO STATUES AND THE FAIRY
37. 37.HOW LA VIA DELLA MOSCA GOT ITS NAME
38. 38.THE ROMAN VASE a legend of bellosguardo
39. 39.THE UNFORTUNATE PRIEST a legend of la via dello scheletro
40. 40.THE MYSTERIOUS FIG-TREE a legend of the via del fico
41. 41.IL PALAZZO FERONI showing how it got its name from a fairy
42. 42.LA VIA DELLE BELLE DONNE
43. 43.THE WIZARD WITH RED TEETH
44. 44.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
45. 45.INTIALO the spirit of the haunting shadow
46. 46.CAIN AND HIS WORSHIPPERS the spell of the mirror—the invocation to cain—the witch-history of cain and abel
47. 47.Footnotes:

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