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«Cinderella» in Italian

Cenerentola

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✒ Author
📖 Pages10
⏰ Reading time 30 minutes
💡 Originally published1812
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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Cenerentola: read the book with parallel translation into English

La moglie di un ricco si ammalò e, quando sentì avvicinarsi la fine, chiamò al capezzale la sua unica figlioletta e le disse: "Sii sempre docile e buona, così il buon Dio ti aiuterà e io ti guarderò dal cielo e ti sarò vicina." Poi chiuse gli occhi e morì. La fanciulla andava ogni giorno alla tomba della madre, piangeva ed era sempre docile e buona. La neve ricoprì la tomba di un bianco drappo, e quando il sole l'ebbe tolto, l'uomo prese moglie di nuovo.
There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, "Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you." And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife.
La donna aveva due figlie che portò con s' in casa, ed esse erano belle e bianche di viso, ma brutte e nere di cuore. Per la figliastra incominciarono tristi giorni. "Che vuole quella buona a nulla in salotto?" esse dicevano. "Chi mangia il pane deve guadagnarselo: fuori, sguattera!" Le presero i suoi bei vestiti, le diedero da indossare una vecchia palandrana grigia e la condussero in cucina deridendola. Lì doveva sgobbare per bene: si alzava prima che facesse giorno, portava l'acqua, accendeva il fuoco, cucinava e lavava. Per giunta le sorelle gliene facevano di tutti i colori, la schernivano e le versavano ceci e lenticchie nella cenere, sicché‚ doveva raccoglierli a uno a uno. La sera, quando era stanca, non andava a letto, ma doveva coricarsi nella cenere accanto al focolare. E siccome era sempre sporca e impolverata, la chiamavano Cenerentola.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. "Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?" said they; "those who eat food must earn it. Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!" They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. "Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!" cried they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her, mocking her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was obliged to rest on the hearth among the cinders. And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Cinderella.
Un giorno, il padre volle recarsi alla fiera e chiese alle due figliastre che cosa dovesse portare loro. "Bei vestiti," disse la prima. "Perle e gemme," disse la seconda. "E tu, Cenerentola," disse egli, "che cosa vuoi?" - "Babbo, il primo rametto che vi urta il cappello sulla via del ritorno," rispose Cenerentola. Così egli comprò bei vestiti, perle e gemme per le due figliastre; e sulla via del ritorno, mentre cavalcava per un verde boschetto, un ramo di nocciolo lo sfiorò e gli fece cadere il cappello. Allora egli colse il rametto e quando giunse a casa diede alle due figliastre quello che avevano chiesto, e a Cenerentola diede il ramo di nocciolo. Cenerentola lo prese, andò a piantarlo sulla tomba della madre, e pianse tanto che le lacrime l'innaffiarono. Così crebbe e divenne un bell'albero. Cenerentola ci andava tre volte al giorno, piangeva e pregava e ogni volta si posava sulla pianta un uccellino che le dava ciò che aveva desiderato.
It happened one day that the father went to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. "Fine clothes!" said one. "Pearls and jewels!" said the other. "But what will you have, Cinderella?" said he. "The first twig, father, that strikes against your hat on the way home; that is what I should like you to bring me." So he bought for the two step-daughters fine clothes, pearls, and jewels, and on his way back, as he rode through a green lane, a hazel-twig struck against his hat; and he broke it off and carried it home with him. And when he reached home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and to Cinderella he gave the hazel-twig. She thanked him, and went to her mother's grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for.
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