Cavalleria ben fornita?[34]
C’è un palazzo, vi son dodici camere, ognuna ne ha trenta travi, e vi son due che si corrono sempre l’uno dietro all’ altro e non si raggiungono mai?[35]
[1] It is significant of a symbolical intention that the story should thus allude to the Valle del Orco; the more so as I cannot hear of any such actual locality in Val Sugana, though ‘Orco’ has lent his name to more than one spot, as we shall see later. There is, however, a Val d’Inferno between this valley and Predazzo.
[2] Settepergole—Seven Pergolas—the name of several farms in Wälsch-Tirol. Pergola is the name for a vine trellised to form an arbour, all over Italy.
[3] This effect has often been noticed here by travellers.
[4] Two bronze statuettes of Apollo were found here in June 1869.
[5] Very like and very unlike the legend of S. Giuliano I met in Rome (Folklore of Rome), where he was supposed to be a native of Albano, and to have passed his penitential time at Compostella. G. Schott, Wallächische Märchen, pp. 281 and 375, gives a similar legend applied to Elias in place of St. Julian.
[6] Folklore of Rome, p. 320.
[7] I need not repeat the characteristics of the Tirolean Norg, which I have given in the translation of the ‘Rose-garden’ in Household Stories from the Land of Hofer.