Pentamerone information

The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier...

remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as Il Pentamerone. Born in Naples into a middle-class family, Basile was a soldier and...

Giambattista Basile wrote another, "Sun, Moon, and Talia" for his collection Pentamerone, published posthumously in 1634-36 and adapted by Charles Perrault in...

version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking...

of fairy tales in 1634, Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), or Pentamerone. It is Aarne–Thompson type 310 "the Maiden in the Tower", of which the...

Basile, who wrote The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550–1555) and the Pentamerone (1634), respectively, printed some of the first known versions of fairy...

fairy tales, or Kunstmärchen. The oldest forms, from Panchatantra to the Pentamerone, show considerable reworking from the oral form. The Grimm brothers were...

II (1587–1630), was the patron of Giambattista Basile, author of the Pentamerone. In 1820 Avellino was seat of revolutionary riots. However, the Unification...

which they considered one of the most famous German folktales. The Pentamerone, published 1634-1636, contains some stories with similarities to Snow...

literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Despite its origins as a literary tale, variants are recorded from oral...

sette palommelle; Italian: I sette colombi), in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone, where the brothers are transformed into doves. In the tale from the...

literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White; other variants include Bella...

by Sara Coleridge The Months (fairy tale) – one of the stories in the Pentamerone a set of landscape paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Month –...

Ass of Apuleius, (2nd century A.D). Boccacio's Decamerone (c.1353) the Pentamerone (1634, 1636) and all that class of facetious fictitious literature."...

literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 652A. A woman wished for a child, even a sprig...

literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. A king is desperate for a child. Following the instructions of a pilgrim...

as the bulk of the plot. In the Italian Campania Fables collection of Pentamerone by Gianbattista Basile, tells of a Neapolitan princess who, to escape...

De Simone from the sixth fable (Cinderella) of Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone. It debuted in Naples and later premiered in the United States (1985)...

literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Italo Calvino included a variant from oral tradition, The Handmade King...