Home | FAQ | Articles | Books | Storytelling | Story Links | Stories | Gallery | About Tim | Wild Times STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE by Giambattista Basile Selected and edited by E. F. Strange Illustrated by Warwick Goble This Italian collection of folk-tales now known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples, and in a Neapolitan dialect that kept it out of northern European tradition for ...

Compare Cenerentola to Ashenputtel, p. 68 compare Petrosinella to Rapunzel, p. 75 compare Gagliuso to Puss in Boots, p. 24 compare The Padlock to Eros and Psyche, p. 180 compare The Two Cakes to Mother Holle, p. 134 compare Pride Punished to Andersen's The Swineherd (see Internet Resources) compare The Months to The Twelve Months, p. 186 compare Sun, Moon and Talia to Sleeping Beauty, p. 137 ...

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