Poem: "Prezzemolina"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem came out of the May 3, 2011 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from eseme and sponsored by marina_bonomi.  A search for "Italian folk tales" turned up the story of Prezzemolina, a variation of Rapunzel.  Of course, adding Fiorenza to the mix entails some creative problem-solving!  This poem is a terza rima, a flexible Italian form with any

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Re: Thank you!

[marina_bonomi]

>>If you know of any resources that list native Italian herbs and other useful plants, that would be nifty. Particularly since, by the time this series matures, it's going to have a longish list of "Fiorenza's garden" species much the way one can design a "Shakespeare's garden."... )

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I have a few resources on herbal and kitchen gardens and native plants (I'm interested in the topic myself) but they are in Italian, I could post a few lists of plants and sites (tagged 'Fiorenza')on my LJ, if that could work for you.<<

Lists would help, yes, if you let me know when you post those. I can save them to my notes for Fiorenza.

>>Pinpointing a time-frame would be useful, we know that in Fiorenza's time tomatoes are known and used in cooking, tomatoes (sing. pomodoro, plural pomidoro /pomodori 'goldenapples') arrived in Italy in 1596 and were cultivated and used widely in Southern Italy in the second half of the 17th century, at the same time the 'pizza al pomodoro' (tomato pizza) was born.Fiorenza could have got some tomatoes and the pizza recipe from a Neapolitan merchant at the Fermo fair...... )