Project Gutenberg 2025-07-06 Public domain in the USA. 145 Serao, Matilde 1856 1927 Scarfoglia, Matilde Serao Serao-Scarfoglia, Matilde Naples : $b Les légendes et la réalité $aParis :$bFélix Juven, $c1908. "Les légendes" appears to be a translation of: La leggenda di Napoli. "La réalité" appears to be a partial translation of: Il ventre di Napoli. Les légendes: La ville de l'amour. Virgile. La mer. La légende de l'amour. Le palais Donn'Anna. La barque-fantôme. Le secret du mage. Donn'Albina, Donna Romita, Donna Regina. O' Munaciello (le Moinillon). Le diable de Mergellina. Mégaride. Le Christ mort. Providence, bonne espérance. Légende de Capodimonte. Légende de l'avenir -- La réalité: Où ils habitent. Ce qu'ils gagnent. Ce qu'ils mangent. Ce qu'ils croient. Ce qui les perd. Ce qui les ruine. Ce qui les entoure. Ce qui les soutient. Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Naples : Les légendes et la réalité" by Matilde Serao is a collection of literary essays written in the late 19th century. The work blends legend, folklore, and reflective reportage to portray Naples as a city where love, landscape, and daily life are inseparable, turning places, seasons, and memories into living myths. The opening of the work sets Naples against the misty North, then reimagines the city’s birth through the love of Parthenope and Cimon, declaring Parthenope eternally alive in Naples. It celebrates and demystifies the legend of Virgil the Mage—his marvels for the city—before arguing that his true “magic” is poetry. A lyrical panorama of the gulf follows, characterizing each stretch of sea (Carmine, the Môle, Santa Lucia, Chiatamone, Mergellina, Pausilippe) as a different soul and destiny, ending with a stark legend of consolation in the waves. A suite of love-legends ties hills, islands, fountains, and the Vesuvius–Capri axis to passion and grief. The haunted Palazzo Donn’Anna frames a tale of jealousy between a powerful duchess and her rival, with love ending in disappearance and solitude. A darker story evokes a ghostly boat: Thécla and Aldo drowned by her husband Bruno, a scene said to reappear only to true lovers. The section closes by beginning the story of Cicho the Sorcerer in medieval Naples, a feared recluse whose “secret” is introduced as he turns from a pleasure-filled youth to a quest to benefit humankind. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k931620c 20241228092117serao 1908 Fr Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr Folklore -- Italy -- Naples Naples (Italy) -- Social life and customs Naples (Italy) -- Social conditions DG GR Text Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches 327390 2025-07-30T08:13:31.403685 text/html 304198 2025-07-06T20:17:11 text/html 291340 2025-07-30T08:13:36.826670 application/epub+zip 290947 2025-07-30T08:13:32.486675 application/epub+zip 243552 2025-07-30T08:13:31.979636 application/epub+zip 473464 2025-07-30T08:13:40.335654 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442752 2025-07-30T08:13:36.414683 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 298734 2025-07-30T08:13:30.778690 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 278864 2025-07-06T20:17:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15682 2025-07-30T08:13:40.498590 application/rdf+xml 12255 2025-07-30T08:13:32.164651 image/jpeg 2488 2025-07-30T08:13:32.069665 image/jpeg 226466 2025-07-30T08:13:31.435639 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia it.wikipedia