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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.
Giovanni Battista Biagio Basile, meglio conosciuto come Giovan Battista Basile, firmatosi anche con lo pseudonimo anagrammatico di Gian Alesio Abbattutis è stato un letterato, scrittore e funzionario pubblico italiano di epoca barocca, primo a utilizzare la fiaba come forma di espressione popolare. Il suo capolavoro è "Lo cunto de li cunti ...
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 ...
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?
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
Feb 15, 2016 · And even before Perroult, there was Giambattista Basile, the Neapolitan poet and courtier whose "Cinderella" story, published in 1634, is the first European version of the tale ever...
