Il mistero del birbante: una questioncella mickiewicziana
Author(s)
Caldarelli, Raffaele
Date Issued
2003
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Article
Abstract
One of characters in Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, the Earl (a courageous man, but also a boaster) uses to tell about a brave deed of his: once in Sicily he conquered, with his own servants, a burglars' shelter named "Birbante Rocca" (Burglar's Castle or Rock). The author tackles the linguistic problems concerning the genesis of this pseudo-Italian place-name (in Italian it would be rather "Rocca Birbante"). The structure of this name could derive by way of structural borrowing from such English place-names as those well known to Mickiewicz for instance from Walter Scott's works (Halidon Hill, Nightmare Abbey and so on).
Citation
R. CALDARELLI, Il mistero del birbante: una questioncella mickiewicziana, in Slavica Viterbiensia I (2003), Viterbo, Sette Città, pp. 51-57.
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