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Giambattista Basile (1566 or 1575–February 23, 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector.
Biography
Born to a Neapolitan middle-class family, Basile was, during his career, a courtier and soldier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venice. According to Benedetto Croce he was born in 1575, while other sources have February 1566. In Venice he began to write poetry. Later he returned to Naples to serve as a courtier under the patronage of Don Marino II Caracciolo, prince of Avellino, to whom he dedicated his idyll L’Aretusa (1618). By the time of his death he had reached the rank of "count" Conte di Torrone.
He is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales titled Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (Neapolitan for "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones"), published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis.
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Pentamerone - Nine stories from the Pentamerone which have analogs in France, Germany, and Denmark.
Stories from Il Pentamerone - Thirty two of the tales, illustrated by Warwick Goble.
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Stories from Pentamerone - Thirty two stories from Giambattista Basile's collection of tales.
Stories from the Pentamerone - E-text from the Project Gutenberg.
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The Pentamerone - by Giambattista Basile - Thirty two of the tales, following the translation by John Edward Taylor published in 1847.
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