Directory of Pentamerone Resources

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"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.

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• Stories from Il Pentamerone

  http://surlalunefairytales.com/illustrations/pentamerone/goblepentamerone
  Thirty two of the tales, illustrated by Warwick Goble.

• Stories from the Pentamerone

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2198
  E-text from the Project Gutenberg.

• The Pentamerone - by Giambattista Basile

  http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/stories/pentamerone.html
  Thirty two of the tales, following the translation by John Edward Taylor published in 1847.

 

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