Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Transcribed by Batsy Bybell, cgale@turbonet.com Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile NOTE The collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year