Pentamerone
Italian fairy tale collection by Giambattista Basile
The Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones) is a seventeenth-century collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile. The collection consists of a frame story and 49 fairy tales. Ten old women tell the tales over five days. The collection contains many famous fairy tale types such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots".
References
change- Zipes, Jack (Ed.) 2000. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford UP. pp. 377-8.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lo Cunto de li Cunti (1634, Basile).
Other websites
change- "La vita di Giambattista Basile" Archived 2006-05-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- The complete text of Lo cunto de li cunti Archived 2010-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Neapolitan)
- Works by Giambattista Basile at Project Gutenberg
- SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Il Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile[permanent dead link]
- Illustrations Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine by George Cruikshank
- Professor S. Cicciotti's page about G. B. Basile (in Italian)
- Online text of some stories, in English (from Taylor translation) Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
