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The Posilecheata: A Day Trip to Posillipo

The Posilecheata: A Day Trip to Posillipo

Sarnelli, Pompeo
Haller, Hermann W.

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1946328669
ISBN13: 9781946328663
Publisher: Agincourt Press
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The Posilecheata is a small jewel with an optimistic vision of humanity created by the young polygraph Pompeo Sarnelli, alias Masillo Reppone de Gnanopoli. Together with Basile's masterpiece, which was its source of inspiration, it stands out as one of the very few narrative prose texts in Italy's literary dialect canon. The five fairy tales exude the author's imagination and fantasy, passion for the Neapolitan language and culture, erudite knowledge of history and art, and daily exposure to all facets of humanity. They were published in 1684 during what has been called the Golden Age of Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the capital of the Kingdom governed by Spanish viceroys underwent a demographic explosion, becoming one of the largest cities of early Modern Europe.

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