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Giambattista BasileGiambattista Basile (died circa 1637) was the Conte di Torrone, a soldier and government official, who is known for publishing a collection of fairy tales, titled Lo cunto de li cunti (Neapolitan dialect for The Story of Stories), or Il Pentamerone, in Naples, Italy in 1634. This was the first-known printed collection of European folk-tales or fairy tales. He recorded and adapted the tales, believed to be part of the oral tradition of Crete and Venice, and several were also recorded later by Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm; examples are versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel. The Pentamerone is the story of the melancholy princess Zoza, who was robbed of marriage to a handsome prince, by a slave who deceitfully took her place. Through an enchantment, Zoza made the pregnant slave-princess demand that she be told stories. Her husband called in many storytellers, each of whom told a story. The last storyteller was Zoza, who told a story revealing the slave's treachery. The slave was killed, and Zoza and her prince lived happily ever after. Contents of Il Pentamerone:
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