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Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the
Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy
tales. The Tale of Tales opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh
no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to
make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince
she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose
this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zosa contrives a
storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten
sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days.
Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome, and featuring kings and
queens, dragons and seduction, The Tale of Tales is a fairy-tale
treasure that prefigures Game of Thrones and other touchstones of
worldwide fantasy literature
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Das Pentameron (Paperback)
Giambattista Basile, Felix Liebrecht
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++++ Il Conto De' Conti: Trattenimento A' Fanciulli Giambattista
Basile Cimmaruta, 1863
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