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    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...
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    remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as Il Pentamerone. Born in Naples into a middle-class family, Basile was a soldier and...
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    Giambattista Basile wrote another, "Sun, Moon, and Talia" for his collection Pentamerone, published posthumously in 1634-36 and adapted by Charles Perrault in...
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  • collection of fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, titled Pentamerone. The three main tales that inspired the film are La Cerva Fatata (The...
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  • literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. It combines Aarne-Thompson-Uther types 857, "The Louse-Skin" and ATU...
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    version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking...
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    of fairy tales in 1634, Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), or Pentamerone. It is Aarne–Thompson type 310 "the Maiden in the Tower", of which the...
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  • and published posthumously in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as Sleeping Beauty,...
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    Basile, who wrote The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550–55) and the Pentamerone (1634), respectively, printed some of the first known versions of fairy...
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  • literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 652A. A woman wished for a child, even a sprig...
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    an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone. It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroine of the frame story...
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    literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Despite its origins as a literary tale, variants are recorded from oral...
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    fairy tales, or Kunstmärchen. The oldest forms, from Panchatantra to the Pentamerone, show considerable reworking from the oral form. The Grimm brothers were...
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  • is an Italian fairy tale written by author Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone, as the fifth story of the second day. The tale is related to the international...
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  • fairytale The Love for Three Oranges, written by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone. Erika Fischer-Lichte History of European Drama and Theatre 2002 p145...
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    sette palommelle; Italian: I sette colombi), in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone, where the brothers are transformed into doves. In the tale from the...
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    from Yamanashi and wondered about its great similarity to a tale in the Pentamerone with a pair of seven-league boots. In Latvian tales the phrase "nine-mile...
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    of Apuleius, (2nd century A.D). Boccaccio's Decamerone (c.1353) the Pentamerone (1634, 1636) and all that class of facetious fictitious literature."...
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  • Basile. It appears in the Pentamerone (The Tales of tales), first published in the 1630s. Project Gutenberg's Stories from Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile:...
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    which they considered one of the most famous German folktales. The Pentamerone, published 1634-1636, contains some stories with similarities to Snow...
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  • De Simone from the sixth fable (Cinderella) of Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone. It debuted in Naples and later premiered in the United States (1985)...
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    II (1587–1630), was the patron of Giambattista Basile, author of the Pentamerone. In 1820 Avellino was seat of revolutionary riots. However, the Unification...
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  • literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. A king is desperate for a child. Following the instructions of a pilgrim...
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  • 409, 431, 450, 511, 511A, 707, and 923. Remarks: Documented by Basile, Pentamerone (I,6) in the 17th century. The entry concludes, like others in the catalogue...
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  • literary fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in A Book of Princes and Princesses...
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    as the bulk of the plot. In the Italian Campania Fables collection of Pentamerone by Gianbattista Basile, tells of a Neapolitan princess who, to escape...
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  • literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Although there is no evidence of direct influence, this tale combines...
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  • 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...
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  • literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Italo Calvino included a variant from oral tradition, The Handmade King...
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  • Three Oranges (fairy tale), Italian fairy tale by Giambattista Basile in Pentamerone "The Love of Three Oranges" (Dad's Army), a 1976 Christmas episode of...
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