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.

• - Nine stories from the Pentamerone which have analogs in France, Germany, and Denmark.
  
• - E-text from the Project Gutenberg.
  
• - One of the first collections of European literary fairy tales; texts of two editions with illustrations.
  
• - Thirty two of the tales, following the translation by John Edward Taylor published in 1847.
  
• - Thirty two of the tales, illustrated by Warwick Goble.
  
• - Thirty two stories from Giambattista Basile's collection of tales.
  
  

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