Giambattista Basile

'The Pentamerone (The Tale of Tales)'

Bog | Engelsk

'The Tale of Tales'

Bog | Engelsk

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,