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The name of the Pentamerone comes from Greek πέντε [pénte], 'five', and ἡμέρα [hêméra], 'day'. It is structured around a fantastic frame story, in which fifty stories are related over the course of five days, in analogy with the ten-day structure of the much earlier Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1353). The frame story is that ...
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Cannetella is a Neapolitan literary fairy tale told by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book, as collected by Hermann Kletke. [2] Another version of this tale is told in A Book of Wizards, by Ruth Manning-Sanders
The She-bear" is an Italian literary fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in A Book of Princes and Princesses. It is Aarne-Thompson classification system folktale type 510B, unnatural love.
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.
The Raven is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] The story is a man winning a bride for his brother the king, and then having to protect the couple from perils that he can not tell anyone about, without being turned to stone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 516. [2]
A woman wished for a child, even a sprig of myrtle, and gave birth to such a sprig.She and her husband put it in a pot and tended it. A prince saw it, took a fancy to it, and finally persuaded her to sell it to him.
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.