Roman Legends: A Collection of the Fables and Folk-lore of Rome | Annotated Tale

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I Cocorni

I COCORNI.

THIS the detail to put in print, though they seemed to illustrate the fact that an imaginative people will rapidly turn the most ordinary circumstances into a myth. For instance, one concerned a family named Cocorni, who seem to have been nothing more than successful grocers, the Twinings of Rome, and here is a specimen of the language used about them:--'When his daughter was old enough to marry, Cocorni would hear of no proposal for her. "No," said he; "no one marries my daughter but he who comes in a carriage and four to fetch her." And it really did happen that one came in a carriage and four and took her away;' as if it were such a great matter that it implied something supernatural.

Bibliographic Information

Tale Title: I Cocorni
Tale Author/Editor: Busk, Rachel Harriette
Book Title: Roman Legends: A Collection of the Fables and Folk-lore of Rome
Book Author/Editor: Busk, Rachel Harriette
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat
Publication City: Boston
Year of Publication: 1877
Country of Origin: Italy
Classification: unclassified








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