While preparing a new episode, Diffusione Fiaba re-broadcasts the inspiring interview with 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗭𝗶𝗽𝗲𝘀, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. An internationally renowned expert, he is the author of dozens of studies and research on fairy tales, as well as translator and editor of essential collections for scholars and enthusiasts of the fairy tale genre, including the translation of Sicilian fairy tales.
The episode is in English and was broadcast as Episode #20 of Season #4 of Diffusione Fiaba, in July 2023.
Fairy tale: “La soru di lu Conti” (“The Count’s sister”), narrated in English by Elena Asciutti, taken from the “Fairy tales and short stories popular Sicilians” by Giuseppe Pitrè, translated by Jack Zipes in “The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales”