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title: MELUSINA ABANDONS THE CASTLE OF THE HUSBAND

subject date: 2007-09-26

caption: MELUSINA blesses its deprived of hope Raimondo spouse and it is gone some in order always, crying and screaming. The legend tells that Melusina, fairy of great beauty, accepted to marry the Count Raimondo di Lusignano and to make of he the first personage of the reign. In exchange it was made to promise from the spouse, which single condition, not to be never spied on the saturday, when it was usual to withdraw itself in its rooms in order to transform itself in a monstrous being from the snake tail. From this union the eredi were born of the most powerful feudali lineages than France. But a day, the husband picked from too much curiosity broke the promise, discovered the secret of its spouse and he so forced it to always escape in order. Xilografia from incunabolo of the 5th century drawn from'Melusina'di Thüring Von Ringoltingen, 1456.

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city: Europa

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country: Italia

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continent: Europa

image century : XV

image epoch: Medioevo

licence: RM

subject century: XV

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Xilografia colorata

id: 20356

file name: FSNgilardi_58499.jpg

keywords

MelusinaRaimondomonsterfairysirenlegendLusignanoFranceMiddle AgesVon Ringoltingen T.metamorphosismagicincantationMiddle Ages