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The ''Pentamerone'' (Neapolitan: ''Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille'', "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones") is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. ==Background== The stories in the ''Pentamerone'' were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy, in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. These stories were later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the latter making extensive, acknowledged use of Basile's collection. Examples of this are versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. While other collections of stories have included stories that would be termed fairy tales, his work is the first collection in which all the stories fit in that single category. He did not transcribe them from the oral tradition as a modern collector would, instead writing them in Neapolitan, and in many respects was the first writer to preserve oral intonations. The style of the stories is heavily Baroque, with many metaphorical usages. As an example, the sun is referred to in quite a few different ways, such as: * "... the Sun, like a chief physician, went out to visit the flowers that are sick and languid, ..." * "The next morning, as soon as the shades of Night, pursued by the constables of the Sun, had fled the country, ..." * "... as soon as the Sun with his golden broom had swept away the dirt of the Night from the fields watered by the dawn." * "... as the Night, having aided the robbers, is banished from the sky, and goes about collecting the faggots of twilight ..." * "... as soon as the Sun opened his bank to deliver the deposit of light to the Creditor of the Day, ..." This has been interpreted as a satire on Baroque style, but as Basile praised the style, and used it in his other works, it appears to have no ironic intention. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pentamerone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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