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The article discusses the true love kiss motif in various lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) retellings of the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty." Topics discussed include a comparison of the tale's narratives in versions by authors Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Grimm, the depiction of fairy tale heroines in the novel "The Stepsister Scheme," by Jim Hines, and the queer characters of Neil Gaiman's novel "The Sleeper and the Spindle."

One of the most striking reactions to the Renaissance codification of literary Italian was the development of dialects as "alternative" literary languages with their own distinct canons. During the seventeenth century, Naples, the undisputed centre of this experimentation, produced a remarkable corpus of original masterpieces by Giambattista Basile, Giulio Cesare Cortese, and others; translations into Neapolitan of Italian and Latin classics, old and new; and linguistic treatises and paratextual materials in praise of Neapolitan. What did this activity mean? How and why did these authors assert their alterity by constructing an ideal poetic community through their Neapolitan works? How did the questioning of the idea of a monolithic literary language relate to a wider interrogation of the traditional system of genres and of the concept itself of literary property? This essay explores these questions by considering the role of the supporting materials of paratexts and translations in the construction and legitimization of the Neapolitan corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although ATU 510A, 'Cinderella', is known to have ancient origins, it was widely thought that the ash-name did not become a feature of the tale type until Giambattista Basile's 'La Gatta cenerentola' (The Ashy Cat) in the seventeenth century. However, it is preceded in this regard by a little-known fourteenth-century Icelandic romance, Vilmundar saga viðutan (The Saga of Vilmundr the Outsider). Using this saga as a starting point, this article traces the literary transmission of ATU 510A through the extant corpus of Old Norse literature, with particular reference to the development of three key aspects of 'Cinderella': the persecuted heroine; the lost-and-found shoe; and the cinder-name. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary review of the book Lo cunto de li cunti, ovvere lo trattenemiento de peccerille or The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile. It refers to the book the first collection of stories in the history of Western literature consisting of fairy tales. It analyzes the misfortunes of Princess Zoza of Valle Pelosa recounted in the frame tale of Cunto.

This paper compares two fairy tales The Golden Trunk and The Padlock from the collection Pentamerone by G.B. Basile and the Tale of Cupid and Psyche from the Apuleius' Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) according to a morphological analysis of functions (Propp 1968) and according to the Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification system (Uther & Disinlage 2004). My analysis is based on Canepa (2007: pp. 169, 199, 399, 404), translator of the English version of Basile's Pentamerone, who maintains that four of the fairy tales in this collection contain Cupid and Psyche motifs and elements as well as Zipes (2000: p. 54), who includes these four fairy tales in the family of "Beauty and the Beast" tales. Following preliminary research, it was found that the structure of Tale of Cupid and Psyche is most similar to the Basile's fairy tales called The Golden Trunk and The Padlock, which is also confirmed by the Jacob Grimm's statement (1846: p. xi) and by comparative reading of A. Maggi (2015: pp. 25-27). In this paper, their findings are supported by the detailed structural comparison based on Propp's morphological analysis with the emphasis on the function of the Difficult Task which mostly links together the three key figures (the Villain, the Hero, and the Sought-For-Person) and which is considered crucial for the dynamics and theatrical potential of the tales where the function is present. The further studies will focus on this function, the acting figures and the performativity of fairy tales in Baroque Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Italian fairy tale "The Three Citrons," by Giambattista Basile. Topics covered include Basile's literary choice of citrons as the botanical sign of love, sex, and desire in the fairy tale, Basile's understanding of citrons, and the prevalence of colors red and white in fairy tales.

This translation of "La princesse jalouse" (1630), by Jean-Pierre Camus, contributes to our knowledge of sources for Charles Perrault's "Sleeping Beauty." Although the main source for Perrault's tale clearly is Giambattista Basile's "Sun, Moon, and Talia," certain elements of his version suggest Perrault also borrowed specific elements from Camus's tragic story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Neapolitan Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone" in Germany. Basile's works indirectly influenced the German literature and narrative tradition wherein authors, such as Charles Perrault, and Friedrich Schulz, had introduced a version of one or more of Basile's works. It also discusses the dependence of Perrault's tales, such as "Peau d'asne," and others, on Basile's works.

A reprint of the article "Postulated Routes from Naples to Paris: The Printer Antonio Bulifon and Giambattista Basile's Fairy Tales in Seventeenth-Century France," by Suzanne Magnanini, which appeared in the 2007 issue of "Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies." It follows Antonio Bulifon, a French-born publisher active in Naples, Italy, on a trail from Paris to Naples and back to Paris. It presents 3 charts of many potential routes by which Bulifon's 1,674 edition of Basile's tales could have traveled to France.