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Giambattista Basile (Giugliano in Campania, 15 February 1566 (date of baptism) – February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. [4]
Giambattista Basile was a Neapolitan soldier, public official, poet, and short-story writer whose Lo cunto de li cunti, 50 zestful tales written in Neapolitan, was one of the earliest such collections based on folktales and served as an important source both for the later fairy-tale writers Charles.
Basile’s life Giambattista Basile was born in Naples between 1566 and 15751. Very little is known about his childhood and his family. Possibly he had six siblings and his family belonged to the Neapolitan middle class that emerged in Naples during the sixteenth century. Around 1603 he joined
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 Giambattista Basile. Background [ edit ] The stories in the Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples , Italy, in 1634 ...
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.
Nov 30, 2017 · Lo cunto de li cunti, overo Lo trattenemiento de peccerille ; Le muse napolitane e le lettere / Giambattista Basile ; a cura di Mario Petrini. - Bari : Laterza, 1976. - Digitizing partner: BEIC
The collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637.
Dec 27, 2018 · While everybody knows Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm brothers, or Charles Perrault, they all 'borrowed' materials for their masterpieces from one single book written by Giambattista Basile. Who was this Italian writer, why is his work so important, and why have most of us never heard of him?
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