From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale by Nancy L. Canepa

From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale

Nancy L. Canepa

333 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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A critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto de li Cunti written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises 50 fairy tales and was the first integral collection ...

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