cover image Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach: Translated from the Original German

Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach: Translated from the Original German

Laura Gonzenbach, Laur Gonzenbach, Laura Gozenbach. Routledge, $45 (350pp) ISBN 978-0-415-96808-9

Stories of royalty, magic and conflict passed down by generations of Italian peasants have been gathered in Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. by Laura Gonzenbach, trans. by Jack Zipes, illus. by Joellyn Rock. In ""Sorfarina,"" a prince marries a beautiful woman, but can't forget an old insult. In a tale much like Puss in Boots, a clever fox helps a poor man fool the king and marry the princess in ""Count Piro."" The title story, a variation of Rapunzel, features a witch who locks up Angiola in a tower, and climbs up on her long braids.