Il Pentamerone: lo cunto de li cunti

The Pentamerone/The Tale of Tales

AuthorGiambattista Basile

LanguageNeapolitan

Year1634

CountryKingdom of Naples

GenreShort Story Collection / Tales

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The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti, is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.— Wikipedia

Translations

Il Pentamerone: or, The Tale of Tales.

tr. Richard F. Burton · Horace Liveright · United Kingdom · 1893

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The Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile. Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce.

tr. Norman M. Penzer · John Lane · United Kingdom · 1927

The Tale of Tales

tr. Nancy L. Canepa · Penguin · United Kingdom · 2016

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Original Language Editions

Il Pentamerone del cavalier Giovan Battista Basile: overo, Lo cunto de li cunte.

Giuseppe-Maria Porcelli · Italy · 1788

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