Project Gutenberg 2000-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 463 Basile, Giambattista 1632 Abbattutis, Gian Alesio Basile, Giovanni Battista Pentamerone. English Stories from the Pentamerone Produced by Batsy Bybell. HTML version by Al Haines. "Stories from the Pentamerone" by Giambattista Basile is a collection of folk tales written in the early 17th century. The collection, originally published in the Neapolitan dialect, brings together various enchanting and whimsical stories, often infused with moral lessons and elements of magic, featuring characters such as princes, princesses, and various fantastical creatures. The overarching theme revolves around the complexities of love, fate, and the consequences of one's actions. At the start of the collection, the narrative opens with a tale about the King of Woody Valley and his melancholic daughter, Zoza, who cannot be made to laugh. In his desperation to bring joy to her life, the King devises various amusing spectacles, but nothing works until an old woman unintentionally causes laughter. However, her angry curse sets Zoza on a quest involving fairies and an enchanted prince. The beginning showcases Basile's rich storytelling style as it introduces themes of desire, enchantment, and the search for happiness, setting the stage for the subsequent tales filled with adventure and morality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Folklore -- Italy PQ Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 473610 467913 2024-09-01T12:30:40.528298 2023-10-01T11:18:32.218048 text/html text/html 461057 2020-12-31T15:37:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 168375 2020-12-31T15:37:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226287 2024-09-01T12:30:46.852282 application/epub+zip 234833 2024-09-01T12:30:42.071334 application/epub+zip 234833 2024-09-01T12:30:41.137301 application/epub+zip 402317 2024-09-01T12:30:50.626245 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 388483 2024-09-01T12:30:46.219306 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 387762 2022-09-01T14:13:17.795862 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 444049 444013 2024-09-01T12:30:39.917318 2023-10-01T11:18:31.557026 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 443851 2020-12-31T15:37:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 166284 2020-12-31T15:37:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18232 2024-09-01T12:30:50.762249 application/rdf+xml 12197 2024-09-01T12:30:41.542292 image/jpeg 2896 2024-09-01T12:30:41.348309 image/jpeg 222537 2024-09-01T12:30:40.570302 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia it.wikipedia