Basile – The Tale of Tales
Gianbatista Basile – Il Pentamerone Giovanni Battista Basile (1566-1632) A short evocation of Basile: Lo cunto de li cunti / The Tale of Tales / Il Pentamerone Published between 1634-6,… …is a collection of fairy tales in Neapoletan dialect (which is very different from Italian…). It was a small-size bookelet: …with decorative chapter pages: Source Read More …