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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. [4]
Giambattista Basile was a Neapolitan soldier, public official, poet, and short-story writer whose Lo cunto de li cunti, 50 zestful tales written in Neapolitan, was one of the earliest such collections based on folktales and served as an important source both for the later fairy-tale writers Charles.
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Giovanni Battista Biagio Basile, meglio conosciuto come Giovan Battista Basile, firmatosi anche con lo pseudonimo anagrammatico di Gian Alesio Abbattutis è stato un letterato, scrittore e funzionario pubblico italiano di epoca barocca, primo a utilizzare la fiaba come forma di espressione popolare. Il suo capolavoro è "Lo cunto de ...
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. Background [ edit ] The stories in the Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples ...
Petrosinella (translating as ‘Little Parsley’) is known as the Italian Rapunzel. It was written by Giambattista Basile (1566-1632), a Neapolitan poet and courtier.
Feb 15, 2016 · Learn about Giambattista Basile, the Neapolitan poet who wrote the earliest European versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots and other fairy tales. Listen to an interview with his translator Nancy Canepa, who reveals the origins and influences of his stories.
Dec 27, 2018 · While everybody knows Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm brothers, or Charles Perrault, they all 'borrowed' materials for their masterpieces from one single book written by Giambattista Basile. Who was this Italian writer, why is his work so important, and why have most of us never heard of him?
