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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
Sun, Moon, and Talia (Italian: Sole, Luna, e Talia) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and published posthumously in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as Sleeping Beauty, as did the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as Little Briar Rose.
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"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 ...
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 Dragon (Neapolitan: Lo dragone) is an Italian literary fairy tale, included in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (Tale IV.5), first published 1635. [1] [2] In the English language, the tale was a selection in Thomas Keightley's Fairy Mythology (1828), and later appeared in John Edward Taylor (fl. 1840–1855)'s translation of the entire work, The Pentamerone, or, The Story of Stories, Fun ...
Pintosmalto or Pinto Smauto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] Italo Calvino included a variant from oral tradition, The Handmade King, based on two tales from Calabria. [2] He noted that variants are also found in Naples, Abruzzo, and Sicily. [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 ...