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The Young Slave is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White; other variants include Bella Venezia and Myrsina. 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 .
Mar 20, 2023 · Although "Maria, the Wicked Stepmother, and the Seven Robbers" and "The Crystal Casket" were published after the Grimm version, "The Young Slave" by Giambattista Basile was published in a ...
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.
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 written.
Dec 17, 2015 · Though the “Snow White” story has largely become associated with Germany, the earliest known written version of the tale was actually published in Italy in 1634 in Giambattista Basile’s Il Pentaemerone: The Tale of Tales. Basile’s story, “The Young Slave,” focuses on the daughter of a baron’s unmarried sister.
Feb 5, 2021 · The Young Slave by Giambattista Basile. This version of the story is different from The Brothers Grimm story but is still considered to be a Snow White variant. Girls competed to jump over a rose bush; at last Cilia, the baron's sister, did so, but she knocked off a rose petal.
