The Clever Peasant Girl (La Contadina Astuta): An Italian Folktale
In a fertile valley between low rolling hills and wide wheat fields, where stone farmhouses clung to the earth as firmly as the people who lived in them, there once lived a poor peasant girl whose name history never bothered to record. In the villages of Lombardy and Emilia, such girls were plentiful, and their lives rarely changed from one
