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The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti (lit. ' The Tale of Tales ' ), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile . Background
Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [ 1 ] Despite its origins as a literary tale, variants are recorded from oral tradition across Europe, in the Americas, and even in Asia.
He studied philology at the universities of Breslau, Munich, and Berlin, and in 1851 became professor of the German language at the Athénée Royal at Liège, Belgium. He resigned his chair and retired into private life in 1867. [1] He died in Saint-Hubert, Belgium. After he suffered a stroke in 1887, a daughter took her aged father to live ...
"Petrosinella" is a Neapolitan fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his collection of fairy tales in 1634, Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), or Pentamerone. [1] It is Aarne–Thompson type 310 "the Maiden in the Tower", of which the best known variant is "Rapunzel", and it is the earliest recorded variant of this tale known to ...
In his Catalogue of Persian Folktales, German scholar Ulrich Marzolph reports 11 Iranian variants of type 450, "Brüderchen und Schwesterchen" ("Little Brother and Little Sister"), wherein the pair of siblings escape from their evil stepmother or from a div, and the little brother becomes a gazelle by drinking from a water source.
Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, The Seven Little Pork Rinds, in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [6] Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales includes a variant, And Seven!. [7] The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, Hateful Flax Spinning, but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well ...
Penta of the Chopped-off Hands or The Girl With the Maimed Hands is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 706B, "The Girl without Hands." [2] The Brothers Grimm cited it as an analog to The Girl Without Hands. [3]
The Three Enchanted Princes [1] or The Three Animal Kings [2] (Neapolitan: Li tre rri anemale; Italian: I tre re animale) [3] is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [4] [2] It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index ATU 552, "The Girls who married animals". At the end of the tale, the ...