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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Italian, from German Grishilda, from Old High German grisja hilda, literally "gray battle-maid." The English form, Grisilde, provided Chaucer's Grizel, the name of the meek, patient wife in the Clerk's Tale, the story and the name both from Boccaccio.
Wikipedia
Griselda is a feminine given name from Germanic sources that is now used in English, Italian, and Spanish as well. According to the 1990 United States Census, the name was 1066th in popularity among females in the United States.
It has been suggested that the name may originate from older German "gris hild", meaning "dark battle". However, some believe that the name came from the older German word "gries", meaning "gravel" or "stone".
The name can also be spelled "Griselde", "Grisselda", "Grieselda", "Grizelda" and "Gricelda". Other forms include "Grissy", "Gris", "Grisel", "Grizel", "Grissel", "Grizzel", "Grisell", "Grizell", "Grissell", "Grizzell", "Grisleys" and "Criselda".
A person with this name can also be referred to as "Zelda" or "Selda".
People named Griselda include:
- Griselda Álvarez (1913–2009), first female governor in Mexico
- Griselda Blanco (1943-2012), a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel
- Griselda Gambaro (born 1928), Argentine writer
- Griselda González (born 1965), Argentine former long-distance runner
- Griselda Pollock (born 1949), art historian, cultural analyst and scholar
- Griselda Tessio (born 1947), vice-governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe
Griselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure from certain folklores, noted for her patience and obedience. In the tale as written by Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo. He tests her by declaring that their first child—a daughter—must be put to death, likewise their second child—a son. Griselda obediently gives up both of them without protest, while Gualtieri secretly sends them away to Bologna to be raised rather than killed. In a final test, Gualtieri publicly renounces Griselda, claiming he has been granted papal dispensation to divorce her and marry a better woman; she goes to live with her father. Some years later, Gualtieri announces he is to remarry and recalls Griselda as a servant to prepare the wedding celebrations. He introduces her to a twelve-year-old girl he claims is to be his bride but who is really their daughter; Griselda wishes them well. At this, Gualtieri reveals their grown children to her and Griselda is restored to her place as wife and mother.
Griselda occurs in tales by Petrarch and Chaucer ( The Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales). Patient Griselda is a tale by Charles Perrault. John Phillip's play The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill (also known as The Plaie of Grissill) dates from 1565. Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker and William Haughton collaborated on another dramatic version, Patient Grissel, first performed in 1599. There are operas named Griselda by Antonio Maria Bononcini ( Griselda, 1718), Alessandro Scarlatti ( La Griselda, 1721), Giovanni Bononcini ( Griselda, 1722), and Antonio Vivaldi ( Griselda, 1735). Also Jules Massenets Grisélidis (1901) was inspired by the tale of Griselda.
Anthony Trollope's high Victorian novel Miss Mackenzie (1865) is based on the Griselda theme. The Modern Griselda is a novel by Maria Edgeworth from 1804. Patient Griselda is one of a group of historical or legendary dinner-party guests in Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls. Patient Griselda is a short story by Steven Anthony George in the anthology ''Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, ''ed. Joshua Allen Mercier, 2015, where the tale is retold as a late twentieth century horror story.
Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera uses a revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron ( X, 10, "The Patient Griselda"). The celebrated Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni was hired to adapt the libretto for Vivaldi. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Samuele on 18 May 1735.
Griselda is a feminine given name.
Griselda may also refer to:
- Griselda (folklore), a character from folklore
- Griselda (Antonio Maria Bononcini), a 1718 opera by Antonio Maria Bononcini
- Griselda (Giovanni Bononcini), a 1722 opera by Giovanni Bononcini
- Griselda (A. Scarlatti), a 1721 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
- Griselda (Vivaldi), a 1735 opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Griselda is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti, the last of Scarlatti’s operas to survive completely today. The libretto is by Apostolo Zeno, with revisions by an anonymous author. Zeno wrote his work in 1701 and it had already been set by Pollarolo and Antonio Maria Bononcini ( Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini and Vivaldi would later produce versions). It is based on the story of Patient Griselda from Boccaccio's Decameron. Scarlatti's opera was first performed at the Teatro Capranica, Rome in January, 1721 with an all-male cast (five castratos and a tenor).
Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Maria Bononcini. The opera uses a slightly revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron ( X, 10, "The Patient Griselda"). The opera was dedicated to Prince Maximilian Karl von Löwenstein, the Austrian governor of Milan, who died during the opera's world première on 26 December 1718 at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan. Nevertheless, Bononcini's opera was well received and enjoyed several revivals during the eighteenth century.
His brother, Giovanni Bononcini, wrote an even more popular version of his own to Zeno's libretto in 1722.
Usage examples of "griselda".
At the close of the season Griselda would return to Plumstead, and Lord Lufton would go--nobody as yet knew where.
Anyway he only said it because Griselda is probably going to have a big part.
Freddy lived with her sister Griselda and her father, George Alexander Webster.
The door burst open without warning and Mrs Roscoe Forrester, Professor Vambrace and Griselda ran in.
And by the terms of this treaty Griselda Grantly was to become Lady Lufton.
And thus, in this way, and for these reasons, Griselda Grantly had been chosen out from all the world to be the future Lady Lufton.
Lady Lufton after receiving her guests introduced Lucy to Griselda Grantly.
And then Griselda smiled again, somewhat less graciously than before, and so the conversation ended.
She never lacked for subjects on which to speak to a country clergyman of the right sort, and thus Griselda was left quite uninterrupted.
But Lucy could not but observe that Griselda herself seemed to have very little to say--or at any rate to say very little.
But then Griselda Grantly probably know much better than Lucy did how to comport herself in such a situation.
Lucy smiled, and tried to look pleased, but she felt that she and Griselda Grantly could never be bosom friends--could never have anything in common between them.
She felt sure that Griselda despised her, little, brown, plain, and unimportant as she was.
But she did not admit to herself that such a visit would be intolerable if his whole time was devoted to Griselda Grantly.
Lady Lufton derived from this was not more than neutralized by an opinion he once put forward that Griselda Grantly wanted some of the fire of Lucy Robarts.