Download or read book Stories from the Pentamerone written by Giambattista Basile and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the Pentamerone is a collection of the earliest European fairy tales written in the Neapolitan language in the seventeenth century by Giambattista Basile, an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. He prepared the collections of the oldest recorded forms of many well-known European fairy tales.