New Releases by Giambattista Basile

Stories from the pentamerone presents a vibrant tapestry of imaginative tales that blend wonder, moral reflection, and the unpredictable workings of fortune. The collection opens with a royal household troubled by lingering sorrow, using this moment to introduce a world where enchantment and consequence shape every path. Through encounters with magical beings, shifting destinies, and trials that test perseverance, the stories highlight how desires often lead individuals into unexpected challenges that reveal inner strength or hidden folly. Early scenes establish a journey sparked by an unexpected burst of laughter and a curse that sends a young figure into a realm shaped by fairies, enchanted tasks, and the hope of restoring joy. These beginnings set the tone for a sequence of adventures that intertwine humor, danger, and wonder, emphasizing the delicate balance between choice and fate. With its rich storytelling style and vivid imagery, the collection invites readers into a landscape where actions carry weight, dreams unfold unpredictably, and the search for happiness becomes a transformative quest.

An adaptation of The She-Bear from Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales (Il Pentamerone, Lo cunto de li cunti). When a pack of wolves nearly tear the prince apart, the very She-Bear he'd been hunting saves his life. As man and beast heal from their wounds, the prince starts to wonder: Is he losing his mind? Or has he really fallen in love with a bear? Magic and mayhem, romance and the ridiculous dance hand in paw in this modern adaptation of the Italian fairy tale where love is the best kind of madness. Comedy / Fantasy One Act 30-45 minutes 1 Male 2 Female 1 Any Cast size: 4-10+ (ensemble of wolves & the prince's hunting party can be as large or small as needed) Features Small cast with majority female roles. Opportunity to add additional performers and an ensemble as needed. Great length for drama competitions and classroom study.

Arm Candy is a funny feminist fairy tale play with a steampunk twist! When the brilliant Betta builds herself a groom out of sugar, a greedy queen steals him from the wedding. Now Betta must save both her handcrafted husband and reputation before time runs out. The result is part 17th Century gender-flipped steampunk Frankenstein, part madcap romantic comedy and all around fun! Alchemy and elbow grease replace wishes and magic in this modern retelling of the Italian fairy tale Pintosmalto from Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales (Il Pentamerone, Lo cunto de li cunti). Comedy / Fantasy / Steampunk 35-45 Minutes 2 male, 3 female, 1 any (5-7+ performers possible) Features Small cast with majority female roles. Opportunity to add additional performers and an ensemble as needed. Opportunities for physical comedy, singing, dance and puppets. Great length for drama competitions and classroom study.

Orchi, draghi, cavalli parlanti, principesse capricciose, bellissime fate: figure incantate che si muovono tra i paesaggi del Mediterraneo, in un'opera immortale, vero e proprio tesoro della tradizione letteraria italiana, tradotta dal dialetto napoletano da Elio Pecora.

Una raccolta di fiabe e storie per bambini, scritte con l'intento di educare ed intrattenere i giovani lettori. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Prva evropska zbirka pravljic, jezikovno bohotna, mesena, a tudi grenko začinjena z zavedanjem, da ljudje raje verjamemo v obstoj govorečih grmov kot v smiselnost učenjakovih besed. Zgodba zgodb je duhovita in ostra kritika družbe 17. stoletja, ki jo je Neapeljčan Giambattista Basile (1566–1632) skozi lastno življenjsko izkušnjo poznal od »ljudske baze« do dvorskih višav. V združitvi teh dveh svetov je nastala prva evropska zbirka pravljic, jezikovno bohotna, mesena, a tudi grenko začinjena z zavedanjem, da ljudje raje verjamemo v obstoj govorečih grmov kot v smiselnost učenjakovih besed. Brata Grimm sta v njem videla ideal; B. Croce zadnjega vélikega renesančnega novelista in velikana italijanskega baroka; I. Calvino čudaškega sredozemskega Shakespearja. Basile ni avtor za otroško publiko, bo pa zbirka bolj zabavala tiste, ki se strinjajo z njegovo trditvijo, da ima človek v tej greznici od sveta toliko, kolikor mu uspe prigristi z lastnimi zobmi. * Poleg tega, da so Basilejeve zgodbe prototip nove literarne zvrsti, so tako tudi izjemen zgodovinski dokument, ki sodobnemu bralcu na satiričen način približuje vsakdanjo realnost ene izmed evropskih prestolnic 17. stoletja (Neaplja), v kateri so bile razlike med tistimi, ki imajo, in tistimi, ki nimajo, tako velike, vseobsegajoče in vsedoločujoče, da je bil svet videti zacementiran v dana razmerja, ki znotraj obstoječega reda niso ponujala nikakršne možnosti spremembe. Žanr, ki ga je ustvaril Basile, je slogovni eksperiment, ki skuša slediti upovedovani snovi, hkrati pa jo ves čas tudi bolj ali manj eksplicitno komentira. To še ni pravljica, ki je v 20. stoletju postala neodtujljiv del procesa odraščanja, v katerem ima jasne vzgojne, psihološke in učne namene – Basile izkoristi tiste lastnosti enodimenzionalne realnosti, zaradi katerih ima pravljica moč, da z lučjo posveti v najtemnejše kotičke človekove duše, locira njene najbolj pritlehne, umazane in destruktivne strasti in jih postavi v dvorano ogledal, kjer jih preobrača, deformira in amplificira, dokler se groza, ki ob njih navdaja bralca, ne spremeni v odrešujoč krohot.

First published in two volumes in 1634 and 1636, "The Pentamerone", or "The Tale of Tales", by the Italian poet Giambattista Basile is acknowledged as one of the first collections of fairy tales. Basile's collection was written in the Neapolitan language, which is a Romance language spoken in parts of Southern Italy, and was published after his death under a pseudonym. Basile put these primarily oral stories into writing and many are the oldest known versions of these stories in existence. He preserved such tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and many more for posterity. This work did not receive the attention it deserved until it was cited by the Brothers Grimm in the third edition of their "Grimm's Fairy Tales" as the first national collection of fairy tales and this caused a significant increase in interest for "The Pentamerone". As a result, Basile's work was translated into German in 1846 and English for the first time in 1847 bringing the tales to a wider audience. This timeless collection of some of the world's most famous stories continues to delight and entertain audiences young and old. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the complete translation by Richard F. Burton.

Das Märchen vom "Petersilchen" aus Basiles berühmter Märchensammlung "Il Pentamerone": Als eine schwangere Frau aus Heißhunger Petersilie aus dem Garten der Hexe isst, muss sie dieser ihr ungeborenes Kind versprechen. Das kleine Mädchen wird aufgrund eines Muttermals Petrosinella ("Petersilchen") genannt. Doch als sie ein Schulkind ist, lauert die Hexe ihr auf und sperrt sie im Wald in einen Turm. Wird es der Prinz, der eines Tages an dem Turm vorbeikommt, schaffen, Petrosinella zu retten und zu heiraten?-

Betta decide di prepararsi un marito con le proprie mani impastando zucchero, mandorle, muschio e acqua di rose. Ma non tutto andrà per il verso giusto, almeno all'inizio. La fiaba di "Pinto Smalto" è tratta da una delle principali raccolte del Seicento italiano, Lo cunto de li cunti di Giambattista Basile (1566-1632), fiabe scritte in napoletano che hanno avuto celebri imitatori come Perrault e Gozzi.

Due figli rischiano nientemeno di essere messi in pentola e offerti in pasto al padre ignaro. La fiaba "Sole, Luna e Talia" è tratta da una delle principali raccolte del Seicento italiano, Lo cunto de li cunti di Giambattista Basile (1566-1632), storie scritte in napoletano che hanno avuto celebri imitatori come Perrault e Gozzi.

Era uma vez um conto de fadas recheado por outros 49 contos de fadas. Este é O conto dos contos, com que Giambattista Basile nos presenteou no início do século XVII. Escrito em napolitano para entretenimento da corte, O conto dos contos inspirou mestres da literatura como os irmãos Grimm e Charles Perrault, ou do desenho animado como Walt Disney. Nos cinquenta contos que compõem o Conto, ogros horrendos de bom coração, donzelas não muito castas, príncipes valentes e princesas mimadas, dragões malvados, rapazes tolos, mas audazes, animais falantes, belíssimas fadas, reis e rainhas, são elevados pela primeira vez à categoria de personagens da literatura, com seus encantamentos e magias. O Conto percorre o imaginário popular, sobretudo napolitano, mas também vai buscar na mitologia e na tradição de outros povos seus argumentos. Histórias que circulavam entre o povo miúdo e no mais das vezes eram contadas às crianças, são reelaboradas em chave irônica, quase iconoclasta, o que vale ao livro o subtítulo de o entretenimento dos pequeninos, "o que não queira dizer (como alguns, e entre estes Grimm, acreditaram, tomando ao pé da letra o título jocoso) que fosse composto para crianças. Era, ao contrário, composto para homens, para homens literatos, experientes e vividos, que sabiam entender e saborear coisas complicadas e engenhosas" (Benedetto Croce). Pela primeira vez se contou a história da moça obrigada pela madrasta a limpar a casa (A gata borralheira); do gato esperto que faz o dono enriquecer (O gato de botas); da menina presa numa torre que joga os cabelos para o namorado (Rapunzel); das duas crianças deixadas no bosque pelo pai a pedido da madrasta (João e Maria), e tantas outras memoráveis figuras encantadas que hoje fazem parte do nosso imaginário. São histórias engraçadas e assustadoras, românticas e terríveis, em que o autor não poupa os detalhes sórdidos, eróticos e escatológicos, embaladas pelas alegorias e metáforas intermináveis próprias do período barroco. Entrar no mundo mágico e exuberante criado por Basile é participar do maravilhoso e do atemporal, do fascínio de quase quatrocentos anos de literatura.

Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, later known as the Pentameron, is a sophisticated, affectionate, often wicked parody of Boccaccio's 14th century masterpiece, the Decameron, containing fifty tales within an intricate framing story. Importantly, among its stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel. This is only the fourth translation of the complete text into English. With its scholarly introduction, notes, and up-to-date bibliography, it will appeal to anyone studying European literature or the fairy tale in general, its history and subsequent development, as well as anyone wishing to trace specific themes within the genre and their different treatments."

Der Neapolitaner Giambattista Basile (1575/1632) war ein italienischer Schriftsteller und Höfling verschiedener Fürsten. Er verfasste Gedichte sowie Theaterstücke und gilt durch sein Hauptwerk Il Pentamerone als Europas erster großer Märchenerzähler. Aus dem Buch: "Es war nämlich einmal ein König von Buschtal, welcher eine Tochter namens Zoza hatte, die man gleich einem zweiten Zoroaster oder Heraklit niemals lachen sah, weswegen der traurige Vater, der keine andere Freude auf Erden besaß als dieses sein einziges Kind, nichts unversucht ließ, um ihren Trübsinn zu verbannen, und um sie aufzuheitern, bald Seiltänzer, bald Reifenspringer, bald Gaukler, bald Hanswürste, bald Taschenspieler, bald starke Herkulesse, bald Hunde, welche Kunststücke machten, bald Esel, die aus Gläsern tranken, bald Tänzer, bald das, bald jenes kommen ließ..."

Chassé par sa mère parce qu'il est le généralissime des idiots, Antuono se met au service d'un ogre. Chaque fois qu'il veut retourner voir sa famille, l'ogre lui fait un cadeau magique... Mais Antuono, ce benêt, s'en fait déposséder par un aubergiste retors. Adaptées d'un texte italien du XVllème siècle, les aventures d'Antuono sont contées dans une langue truculente et riche. Dans le DVD, la puissance de la langue des signes rend chaque scène particulièrement vivante. Les artistes sourds, d'une rare expressivité, sont doublés par les voix d'autres comédiens. Saisissant et accessible à tous !

Ecrit en langue napolitaine, sous l'anagramme Gianlesio Abbattutis, autour de 1625, et édité, posthume, en 1634-1636, Lo cunto de li cunti de Giambattista Basile n'a jamais fait l'objet d'une traduction intégrale en français. Il s'agit pourtant de l'une des productions majeures de la littérature européenne du XVIIe siècle. Il peut être considéré comme un recueil de contes pour enfants, ainsi que son sous-titre l'indique et l'on peut tenter de rechercher quelle inspiration les contes du Napolitain avaient pu fournir à Perrault ou à Grimm. D'autres critiques, comme Italo Calvino, hésitent à inclure Basile dans ce patrimoine, préférant souligner la richesse de l'invention métaphorique et le délire de l'imagination voyageant du «sublime au sordide». Ainsi selon Calvino «le Conte des contes est le rêve d'un Shakespeare napolitain difforme, obsédé par tout ce qui est effroyable, n'ayant jamais son compte de sorcières et d'ogres, fasciné par les images alambiquées et grotesques, où la vulgarité se mêle au sublime». Et sans doute ont-ils raison. Mercenaire à la solde de la Sérénissime République de Venise, académicien, courtisan au contact des centres culturels les plus prestigieux d'Italie, Venise d'abord, et Mantoue où sa soeur, la chanteuse Adriana Basile régnait en diva, poète dilettante et gouverneur de fiefs provinciaux aux environs de Naples, Basile est un «aventurier de la plume». Le Conte des contes n'est pas seulement un conte (celui de la princesse Zoza, que Lucia, l'esclave mauresque aux jambes de sauterelle, dépossède du prince qu'elle a ressuscité par ses pleurs) qui engendre d'autres contes (ceux que les femmes racontent à Lucia à qui Zoza a donné l'envie irrépressible d'entendre des histoires), c'est un monument narratif qui orne et enrichit les structures élémentaires du merveilleux d'une expérience d'artiste et d'homme.

Within four days, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, “What do you wish for?” Before Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Basile penned the first modern literary version of the Cinderella fairytale. It is the story of Zezolla, the daughter of an Italian Prince, who is betrayed by her governess and forced to live the life of a servant—that is until the King announces a feast. With assistance from a date-tree given to her by the Fairies of Sardinia, Zezolla is able to attend the feast and her life is forever changed. In addition, this book contains The She-Bear—a close variant of The Cat Cinderella, also from Giambattista Basile’s The Pentamerone—for an English readership to enjoy. [Folklore Type: ATU-510: Cinderella and Catskin – A + B (Persecuted Heroine + Unnatural Love)]

Prezzemolina viene rinchiusa in una torre incantata da un’orchessa malvagia. Ma grazie alle sue lunghe trecce e al coraggio di un principe troverà la strada della libertà... Le 30 grandi fiabe come non ve le hanno mai narrate. Per bambini che sanno leggere e non. Un’esperienza di narrazione immersiva, con un testo recitato da attori, musica, effetti sonori speciali e illustrazioni a colori. La voce narrante e ogni personaggio hanno voci diverse facilmente riconoscibili. Tanti suoni e rumori (porta che si chiude, vento che soffia, oggetto che si frantuma), collegati agli avvenimenti della fiaba, arricchiscono l’esperienza narrativa facilitando il coinvolgimento dei più piccoli. Così come la musica di sottofondo e le segnalazioni sonore per voltare pagina. Le voci degli attori sono sincronizzate con il testo che viene di volta in volta evidenziato per permettere ai bambini di associare la voce al testo e di sapere quando una pagina è stata completamente letta. Per i bambini più grandi e per i genitori che vogliono leggere le fiabe ad alta voce le funzionalità di narrazione audio sono disattivabili. Le UNICHE grandi fiabe con narrazione immersiva disponibili in eBook (non si tratta di App). Solo per Tablet e Smartphone. Non idonee per fruizione su eReader. Per i device Android attendere il completo caricamento del file. • eBook ottimizzato per Tablet/Smartphone • Durata tipica della narrazione: ca. 30 minuti • Attivazione/Disattivazione funzionalità audio (voce, musica, effetti sonori e segnalazioni) • Traduzione in italiano fedele alla tradizione della fiaba originale • Illustrazioni a colori • Lettura consigliata per i bambini dai 4 agli 8 anni

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography. The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender and whimsical, acute in psychological characterization and encyclopedic in description. They are also evocative of marvelous worlds of fairy-tale unreality as well as of the everyday rituals of life in seventeenth-century Naples. Yet because the original is written in the nonstandard Neopolitan dialect of Italian—and was last translated fully into English in 1932—this important piece of Baroque literature has long been inaccessible to both the general public and most fairy-tale scholars. Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones" is a modern translation that preserves the distinctive character of Basile's original. Working directly from the original Neopolitan version, translator Nancy L. Canepa takes pains to maintain the idiosyncratic tone of The Tale of Tales as well as the work's unpredictable structure. This edition keeps the repetition, experimental syntax, and inventive metaphors of the original version intact, bringing Basile's words directly to twenty-first-century readers for the first time. This volume is also fully annotated, so as to elucidate any unfamiliar cultural references alongside the text. Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones" is also lushly illustrated and includes a foreword, an introduction, an illustrator's note, and a complete bibliography. The publication of The Tale of Tales marked not only a culmination of the interest in the popular culture and folk traditions of the Renaissance period but also the beginning of the era of the artful and sophisticated "authored" fairy tale that inspired and influenced later writers like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones" offers an excellent point of departure for reflection about what constitutes Italian culture, as well as for discussion of the relevance that forms of early modern culture like fairy tales still hold for us today. This volume is vital reading for fairy-tale scholars and anyone interested in cultural history.

Pocos lectores saben que algunas de las más hermosas fábulas del mundo, desde Cenicienta a El gato con botas, antes de acabar en las páginas de Perrault y los hermanos Grimm, donde todos las descubrimos de niños, fueron recogidas de las tradiciones orales por el napolitano Giambattista Basile, que las publicó a comienzos del siglo XVII en el dialecto barroco napolitano. Su obra, el Pentamerón, fue definida por Benedetto Croce como «el más antiguo, el más rico y el más artístico de todos los libros de fábulas populares» y por Italo Calvino como «el sueño de un Shakespeare napolitano». Aún hoy, en que la mayor parte de sus páginas se han integrado en nuestra mitología íntima, este libro amable y brutal, tierno y plebeyo, sabio y popular, sigue siendo una obra maestra casi desconocida.