About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Pentamerone, Il Guerrin Meschino, The Pig King, Biancabella and the Snake, Guerrino and the Savage Man, Ancilotto, King of Provino, Prunella, The King of Love, The Enchanted Snake, Penta of the Chopped-off Hands, The Three Crowns, The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Story of Bensurdatu, The Fair Fiorita, Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi, The Love for Three Oranges, The Raven, The Three Fairies, Sun, Moon, and Talia, Pintosmalto, How to find out a True Friend, The She-bear, Snow-White-Fire-Red, Costanza / Costanzo, Sapia Liccarda, Peruonto, Bella Venezia, Thirteenth, Misfortune, The Young Slave, How the Devil Married Three Sisters, Catherine and her Destiny, How the Hermit helped to win the King's Daughter, The Canary Prince, The Little Girl Sold with the Pears, The Cunning Shoemaker, Cannetella, The Goat-faced Girl, The Enchanted Doe, The King who would have a Beautiful Wife, The Three Enchanted Princes, How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro, Corvetto, The Myrtle, The Merchant, The Dove, Fair Brow, The Golden Lion, In Love with a Statue, Don Joseph Pear, The Three Sisters, The Months, The Flea, The Slave Mother, Water and Salt, Petrosinella. Excerpt: The Pentamerone (Neapolitan: Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille, "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones") is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. The stories in The Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. He recorded and adapted the tales, believed to have been orally transmitted around Crete and Venice, several of which were also later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the...
