Giambattista Basile

Giambattista Basile (1566 or 1575– February 23rd 1632) was a Poète, Courtisan and Italian writer which is especially known for its collections of Conte S.

Biography

Born with Naples in a family from the middle-class, Giambattista Basile was courtier and soldier near several Italian princes, of which the Doge de Venise. According to Benedetto Croce it would have been born in 1575 whereas according to other sources it would have been born in 1566. Giambattista Basile started to write poems with Venice then is then gone back to Naples to be used like courtier under protection as Don Marino II Caracciolo, prince d' Avellino to which it dedicated its idylle Aretusa (1618). With its death he had become Count de Torrone.

Giambattista Basile is especially famous to have written a collection of Conte S Neapolitan heading Lo cunto of Li cunti ovvero Lo trattenimiento de' peccerille (what in Napolitain means " The tale of the tales or entertainment of small the enfants"). These tales were published in two volumes after its death by his/her Adriana sister in 1634 and 1636 under the Pseudonyme of Gian Alesio Abbatutis.

Giambattista Basile collected and adapted tales resulting from the oral tradition crétoise and Venetian. Several of them were then adapted by Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the latter having abundantly drawn in the collection of Basile. It is for example the case of Cendrillon , the Cat boot , Peau of Ass , the Fairies , Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel .

Lo cunto is known under the name of Pentamerone , a title used for the first time in the edition of 1674 in allusion to the Décameron of Boccace, on the model of which it is built.

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