Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Stories from the Pentamerone

by Giambattista Basile

  • First published: Date unknown
  • Language: English
Read free

Description

Description from Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)

"Stories from the Pentamerone" by Giambattista Basile is a fairy tale collection published posthumously in 1634 and 1636. This groundbreaking work presents fifty Neapolitan tales told over five days through an elaborate frame story about a cursed princess who cannot laugh. Written in richly Baroque style, these stories preserve oral storytelling traditions and became the foundation for beloved tales later adapted by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, including early versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and project-gutenberg matched “Folklore”, “folklore”, and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “fairy tale” in the description, “Tales” in the description, and “Folklore” in the subject metadata.

    • “Folklore”· via The Online Books Page
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “fairy tale”· in description
    • “Tales”· in description
    • “Folklore”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

————Source listed online copy

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.

2000-05-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

Subjects

2 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

Project Gutenberg

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PQ4607 .B5 Z33
Catalog id
project-gutenberg:2198
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved