Bella Venezia

"Bella Venezia" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Calvino selected this variant, where the heroine meets robbers, rather than others that contain dwarfs, because he believed the dwarfs were probably an importation from Germany.[1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White. Others of this type include Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, Nourie Hadig, La petite Toute-Belle, and Myrsina.[2]

  1. ^ Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales p 739 ISBN 0-15-645489-0
  2. ^ Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"