Pentamerone Fairy Tales Tales Literature

"Il Pentamerone", or "Lo cunto de li cunti" (The Story of Stories), is one of the oldest collections of fairy tales, written down in an embellished style in the Neapolitan dialect by Giambattista Basile (ca. 1575-1632), an Italian soldier and government official. The collection consists of fifty stories told within a frame story.

• Pentamerone - Nine stories from the Pentamerone which have analogs fairy tales in fairy tales France, Germany, and Denmark.
• The Pentamerone - by Giambattista Basile - Thirty two of the tales, following the translation pentamerone by John pentamerone Edward Taylor published in 1847.
• Stories from the Pentamerone - E-text from the Project Gutenberg.
• Stories from Il Pentamerone - Thirty two of the tales, illustrated by Warwick fairy tales Goble.

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