Una nota in margine a A. La Penna, La favola antica. Esopo e la sapienza degli schiavi

The article offers some remarks on a recently published volume collecting Antonio La Penna’s papers on Aesopian fables. This book, conceived and built by its editors as a unitary essay, gathers La Penna’s many contributions (dating from the early Sixties to the half of the Nineties) about the origins, style and ethics of the ancient fable, with particular regard to the production transmitted under the names of Aesop and Phaedrus.