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‘Raperonzolo’[1], by Grimm brothers.

Books to work on4.

 

“Raperonzolo, please show yourself,

Let hang your plait!”[2] 

Original painting by Gianni Russomando.[3]  Ref.: 0_5531894_125008.jpg

 

 

‘Raperonzolo’ is a story of daily life – and of work indeed – and is of interest to children, because is quite different to be swindled due to one’s own naivety or to be overwhelmed without any reason by dull-minded ones : a child infact doesn’t miss that one’s naivety can be corrected, in favour of a justice too, while perversion has to be recognized as early as possible so that to take a convenient distance from.

Then in this adult tale which children well understand, there is also space for the inscrutable frustration – which can lead to the most extreme consequences – of the persecutor[4], when he or she realizes to have been laughed at, as well as that industrious unceasing essential course by which anyone of us can go through our own life and even conquer again it when defeated, also if a child.

 

                                       Marina Bilotta Membretti, Cernusco sul Naviglio September 20, 2021

 

 

[1] ‘Raperonzolo’ is a tale from the collection “Grimm. Le fiabe del focolare”, Collana ‘I millenni’ (1951) ‘Giulio Einaudi editore’, Transl. Clara Bovero, ‘Introduzione’ by Giuseppe Cocchiara : that was offered in 1872 as Iacopo and Guglielmo Grimm would like, as an anthology of most popular German poem,s so different from classical poems of the period.

[2] “…When she was twelve, the witch locked her in a tower in the wood, without any ladder or door but a little window upward the wall. When the witch came in, she went just under the window and called : ‘Raperonzolo, show yourself/ let hang your plait!’ Raperonzolo had long and cute hair, thin as spun gold. When she heard the with calling, she untied her plaits, tied them again around a hinge of the window and they fell down for twenty ells length, and the witch could climb on the wall…”

[3] Gianni Russomando, biography : “I’m born in Vercelli (1956). Graduated at ‘Istituto di Belle Arti di Vercelli’, I can describe me as a simple ‘amanuense’ (medieval hand-painter). Far from expositions and competitions, it’s not a long time I’m on social media with a very personal aim : to give just a flash of quiet to anyone watching at my simple works.” 

[4] “Ah, wretched child! – Mrs Gothel, the magician shouted – what should I hear! I was sure to parting you from all the world, instead you tricked me!”, ‘Raperonzolo’ in “Grimm. Le fiabe del focolare”, Giulio Einaudi editore (1951) p.58

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