Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition

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dc.creator	Orsatti Paola
dc.title	Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition. Two Characters: Farhād and Turandot
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from long narrative poems, historical chronicles, and reports by geographers and travelers, is the issue of a conflation between the legendary character of the Master of Mount Bīsutūn and a historical personage, Farrahān, the general-in-chief of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz’s army (r. 590-628 EC), as this figure was re-elaborated in a number of later legends. The second essay identifies a character named ‘Būrān-dukht’ as the prototype from which Turandot, the heroine of the tale well-known in Europe from Puccini’s opera (1926), springs. Two historical personages, both called Būrān or Būrān-dukht, are relevant in this line of development: the first is the daughter of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 580-628 CE), who was queen of Persia for a short period (630-631 CE); the other is the daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, wife of Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 CE).
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-354-0
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-10-30
dc.dateAccepted	2019-09-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-08-28
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-355-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-354-0
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dc.subject	Būrān-dukht
dc.subject	Farhād
dc.subject	Farrahān Shahr-barāz
dc.subject	Niẓāmī
dc.subject	Origins of literary characters
dc.subject	Persian narrative tradition
dc.subject	The Turandot tale
dc.subject	Turandot

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Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition

Two Characters: Farhād and Turandot

Paola Orsatti Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from long narrative poems, historical chronicles, and reports by geographers and travelers, is the issue of a conflation between the legendary character of the Master of Mount Bīsutūn and a historical personage, Farrahān, the general-in-chief of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz’s army (r. 590-628 EC), as this figure was re-elaborated in a number of later legends.

The second essay identifies a character named ‘Būrān-dukht’ as the prototype from which Turandot, the heroine of the tale well-known in Europe from Puccini’s opera (1926), springs. Two historical personages, both called Būrān or Būrān-dukht, are relevant in this line of development: the first is the daughter of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 580-628 CE), who was queen of Persia for a short period (630-631 CE); the other is the daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, wife of Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 CE).

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Oct. 30, 2019

Accepted

Sept. 15, 2019

Submitted

Aug. 28, 2019

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-355-7

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-354-0

Number of pages

116

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16x23 cm

Keywords

Niẓāmī • Farrahān Shahr-barāz • Turandot • Persian narrative tradition • The Turandot tale • Farhād • Būrān-dukht • Origins of literary characters

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