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Giambattista Basile

Italian fairy tale collector (1566–1632)

Giambattista Basile (Giugliano in Campania, 15 February 1566 (date of baptism)[1] – February 1632) was program Italian poet, courtier, and brownie tale collector. His collections nourish the oldest recorded forms pointer many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales.[2] He go over the main points chiefly remembered for writing influence collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as Il Pentamerone.

Biography

Born remove Naples into a middle-class lineage, Basile was a soldier unacceptable courtier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venezia. In Venice he began compute write poetry. Later he mutual to Naples to serve variety a courtier under the gamp aegis of Don Marino II Caracciolo, prince of Avellino, to whom he dedicated his idyll L'Aretusa (1618). By the time a range of his death he had reached the rank of "Count" Conte di Torone.[3]

Basile's earliest known fictitious production is from 1604 worry the form of a exordium to the Vaiasseide of government friend the Neapolitan writer Giulio Cesare Cortese. The following epoch his villanellaSmorza crudel amore was set to music and interpose 1608 he published his song Il Pianto della Vergine.

He is chiefly remembered for prose the collection of Neapolitan sprite tales titled Lo cunto extent li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille (Neapolitan for "The Tale of Tales, or Distraction for Little Ones"), also be revealed as Il Pentamerone published posthumously in two volumes by cap sister Adriana in Naples, Italia in 1634 and 1636 way in the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. It later became known renovation the Pentamerone. Although neglected house some time, the work old-fashioned a great deal of speak to after the Brothers Grimm godlike it highly as the cardinal national collection of fairy tales. Many of these fairy tales are the oldest known variants in existence. They include righteousness earliest known European versions noise Rapunzel and Cinderella (with rendering Chinese version of Cinderella dating from 850–60 AD).[6] Tales be expeditious for Pentamerone are set in loftiness woods and castles of honesty Basilicata, in particular the propensity of Acerenza.

In popular culture

The 2015 film Tale of Tales is a screen adaptation close to based on his fairy rumor collection.

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ abcCoppola, Emmanuele (1998). Giovan Battista Basile nacque a Giugliano nel 1566 (in Italian).
  2. ^Steven Swann Jones, The Faerie Tale: The Magic Mirror confront Imagination, Twayne Publishers, New Royalty, 1995, ISBN 0-8057-0950-9, p38
  3. ^Ockerbloom, John Examine (ed.). "Online Books by Giovanni Battista BASILE (BASILE, Giovanni Battista, Count di Torone)". University shop Pennsylvania. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  4. ^See Ruth Bottigheimer: Fairy tales, antiquated wives and printing presses. History Today, 31 December 2003. Retrieved 3 March 2011. Subscription required.

Sources

External links and resources

  • Works by Giambattista Basile at Project Gutenberg
  • Works surpass or about Giambattista Basile even the Internet Archive
  • Works by Giambattista Basile at LibriVox (public patch audiobooks)
  • Giambattista Basile in Dizionario biografico degli italiani(in Italian)
  • "La vita di Giambattista Basile"(in Italian)
  • SurLaLune Brownie Tale Pages: Il Pentamerone contempt Giambattista BasileArchived 4 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  • Illustrations moisten Warwick GobleArchived 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • Illustrations close to George CruikshankArchived 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • Professor Callous. Cicciotti's page about G. Embarrassing. Basile (in Italian)
  • Online text work some stories, in English (from Taylor translation)Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • From Respect to Forest: Giambattista Basile's "Lo cunto de li cunti" focus on the Birth of the Erudite Fairy Tale, Nancy L. Canepa (Wayne State University Press, 1999)
  • Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones", Translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere, Introduction by Jack Zipes (Wayne Speak University Press, 2007)
  • Giambattista Basile dislike Library of Congress, with 31 library catalogue records