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SHAHRYAR, GIOCONDO, KOṮE˙RVIKY THREE VERSIONS OF THE MOTIF OF THE FAITHLESS WOMAN

SHAHRYAR, GIOCONDO, KOṮE˙RVIKY THREE VERSIONS OF THE MOTIF OF THE FAITHLESS WOMAN SHAHRYAR, GIOCONDO, KOTE"RVIKY THREE VERSIONS OF THE MOTIF OF THE FAITHLESS WOMAN by Aldo D. Scaglione University of California In honor 0/ Leonardo Olschki Gleaning in popular literature is oftentimes fraught with surprises, a sufficient reward, as it were, for the curious reader. So it was that I chanced to come across another exemplum of a successful tale's mysteri­ ous ubiquity: the tale which is known as "Shahryar and His Brother" in the Thousand and One Nights (frame story), and the story 01 "Giocondo" in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Canto xxviii). This time it came to me from India, where so many of them belong by birthright, as we often think. Since no direct source-influence can be implied, as we shall see, the coincidence is of interest to us mainly if we succeed in analyzing the nature of the various versions and deriving any enlightenment from their differences. Yet, a more precise reason for this study is the opportunity to straighten out a detail of information, and to develop a point of interpretation. The motif of the various tales consists of proving by typical examples the universal, chronic, a priorI: faithlessness of woman. Let us see how it develops in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oriens Brill

SHAHRYAR, GIOCONDO, KOṮE˙RVIKY THREE VERSIONS OF THE MOTIF OF THE FAITHLESS WOMAN

Scaglione, Aldo D.
Oriens , Volume 11 (1): 11 – Jan 18, 1958
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SHAHRYAR, GIOCONDO, KOTE"RVIKY THREE VERSIONS OF THE MOTIF OF THE FAITHLESS WOMAN by Aldo D. Scaglione University of California In honor 0/ Leonardo Olschki Gleaning in popular literature is oftentimes fraught with surprises, a sufficient reward, as it were, for the curious reader. So it was that I chanced to come across another exemplum of a successful tale's mysteri­ ous ubiquity: the tale which is known as "Shahryar and His Brother" in the Thousand and One Nights (frame story), and the story 01 "Giocondo" in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Canto xxviii). This time it came to me from India, where so many of them belong by birthright, as we often think. Since no direct source-influence can be implied, as we shall see, the coincidence is of interest to us mainly if we succeed in analyzing the nature of the various versions and deriving any enlightenment from their differences. Yet, a more precise reason for this study is the opportunity to straighten out a detail of information, and to develop a point of interpretation. The motif of the various tales consists of proving by typical examples the universal, chronic, a priorI: faithlessness of woman. Let us see how it develops in

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Published: Jan 18, 1958

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