Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Name: Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
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ISBN: 9780814328668

ISBN-10: 0814328660

ISBN-13: 9780814328668

Edition: 2007

Authors: Giambattista Basile, Carmelo Lettere, Jack Zipes, Nancy L. Canepa

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The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender and whimsical, acute in psychological characterization and encyclopedic in description. They are also evocative of marvelous worlds of fairy-tale unreality as well as of the everyday rituals of life in seventeenth-century Naples. Yet because the original is written in the nonstandard Neopolitan dialect of Italian—and was last translated fully into English in 1932—this important piece of Baroque…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Foreword : the rise of the unknown Giambattista Basile




The first day


Introduction to The tale of tales



The tale of the ogre



The myrtle



Peruonto



Vardiello



The flea



The Cinderella cat



The merchant



Goat-face



The enchanted doe



The old woman who was skinned


The crucible : eclogue



The second day


Introduction to the second day



Petrosinella



Green meadow



Viola



Cagliuso



The serpent



The she-bear



The dove



The little slave girl



The padlock



The buddy


The dye : eclogue



The third day


Introduction to the third day



Cannetella



Penta with the chopped-off hands



Face



Sapia Liccarda



The cockroach, the mouse, and the cricket



The garlic patch



Corvetto



The ignoramus



Rosella



The three fairies


The stove : eclogue



The fourth day


Introduction to the fourth day



The rooster's stone



The two brothers



The three animal kings



The seven little pork rinds



The dragon



The three crowns



The two little pizzas



The seven little doves



The crow



Pride punished


The hook : eclogue



The fifth day


Introduction to the fifth day



The goose



The months



Pretty as a picture



The golden trunk



Sun, moon, and Talia



Sapia



The five sons



Nennillo and Nennella



The three citrons


End of The tale of tales