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The Young Slave is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White; other variants include Bella Venezia and Myrsina. [2] The tale is based in Italy, and is often cited as one of the first Snow White stories to exist.
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 .
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.
Source: Giambattista Basile, Il Pentamerone; or, The Tale of Tales, translated by Richard Burton, vol. 1 (London: Henry and Company, 1893), day 2, tale 8, pp. 205-210. This story combines elements of Snow White (type 709) and Sleeping Beauty (type 410) tales. Giambattista Basile was born about 1575 in Naples and died 1632 in Giugliano, Campania.
The Young Slave Lyrics. There was once a Baron of Selvascura who had an unmarried sister. This sister used to go and play in a garden with other girls her own age. One day they found a lovely...
In Lo cunto de li cunti, a prince and his wife, a slave who has been posing as a princess, are entertained for 5 days by 10 women, who tell them 50 stories, among which are the familiar tales of Puss in Boots, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White and Rose Red, the Three Oranges, and Beauty and the Beast. On the last day of storytelling, the real ...
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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.
