The Nut and the Crow
A nut, having been carried by a crow to the top of a tall campanile and released by falling into a chink from the mortal grip of its beak, it prayed the wall by the grace bestowed on it by God in allowing it to be so high and thick, and to own such fine bells and of...
Le châtaigner et le figuier
Le châtaignier, voyant un homme sur le figuier, pliant ses branches à l’envers et arrachant les fruits mûrs qu’il mettait dans sa bouche ouverte, en les détruisant et en les écrasant avec ses dents dures, agita ses longs branches et dit avec un bruissement...
Il Castagno e il fico
Vedendo il castagno l’uomo sopra il fico, il quale piegava inverso a sé i sua rami, e di quelli ispiccava i maturi frutti, e quali metteva nell’aperta bocca disfacendoli e disertandoli coi duri denti, crollando i lunghi rami e con temultevole mormorio...
The Chestnut and the Fig tree
The chesnut, seeing a man upon the fig-tree, bending its boughs down and pulling off the ripe fruits, which he put into his open mouth destroying and crushing them with his hard teeth, it tossed its long boughs and with a noisy rustle exclaimed: “O fig! how much...
