The Pentamerone
Fifty tales told over five days in Neapolitan dialect to a sulking false princess, among them the earliest written Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Puss in Boots, all of it in a register of ogres, cursed lovers, and street obscenity. Basile wrapped courtly frames around brutally physical peasant material and wrote it in a dialect his own court barely read in print. The first European collection made entirely of fairy tales, and the quarry that Perrault and the Grimms worked afterward.
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- shares sources with ↑ One Thousand and One Nights
- ↓ Italian Folktales
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Closest analogues
- 56% · 12 shared
- 56% · 12 shared
- 53% · 13 shared
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- 48% · 10 shared