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Giambattista Basile was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. He wrote the oldest known versions of Rapunzel and Cinderella, and his collection Il Pentamerone influenced the Brothers Grimm and other writers.
Learn about the Neapolitan author who wrote one of the earliest collections of fairy tales based on folklore. Find out how his stories influenced Perrault, the Grimm brothers, and Gozzi.
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The Pentamerone is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. It influenced many later writers, such as Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, and contains stories that are the oldest known variants of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, and more.
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.
Scopri la vita e le opere di Giambattista Basile, il primo scrittore a usare la fiaba come forma popolare. Leggi le sue lettere, le sue amicizie, le sue influenze e le sue opere, tra cui il famoso Pentamerone.
Feb 15, 2016 · Learn about Giambattista Basile, the Neapolitan poet who wrote the earliest European versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and other fairy tales. Listen to an interview with his translator Nancy Canepa, who reveals the origins and influences of his stories.
Giambattista Basile - anagrammatic pseudonym of Gian Alesio Abbattutis, was born in Giugliano in Campania on 15th February 1566 and died, always in Giugliano, on February 23, 1632. A writer of the Baroque era, Basile was the first to use the fairy tale as a form of popular expression.
