Ulisse is an opera in a prologue and two acts composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to his own libretto based on the legend of Ulysses.
 It premiered at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (in German translation by Karl-Heinrich Kreith as "Odysseus") on 29 September 1968 conducted by Lorin Maazel with Erik Saedén in the title role.
 "Ulisse" was Dallapiccola's last opera and took eight years to compose.
 As in his previous operas, "Volo di notte" and "Il prigioniero", his declared theme was "the struggle of man against some force much stronger than he".
Longanesi, also known as Longanesi & C., is a publishing house based in Milan, Italy.
 It was founded in 1946 by Leo Longanesi and industrialist Giovanni Monti.
 It initially got a large success thanks to some editorial series such as " La buona società" and "La gaia scienza".
La buona figliuola ("The Good-Natured Girl" or "The Accomplish'd Maid"), or La Cecchina ("Cecchina"), is an opera buffa in three acts by Niccolò Piccinni.
 The libretto, by Carlo Goldoni, is based on Samuel Richardson's novel "Pamela".
 This was Piccinni's most successful Italian opera.
 There was a sequel entitled "La buona figliuola maritata" (1761) by the same composer and librettist.
 "La buona figliuola supposta vedova" by Gaetano Latilla followed in 1766.
Il prigioniero ("The Prisoner") is an opera (originally a radio opera) in a prologue and one act, with music and libretto by Luigi Dallapiccola.
 The opera was first broadcast by the Italian radio station RAI on 1 December 1949.
 The work is based on the short story "La torture par l'espérance" ("Torture by Hope") from the collection "Nouveaux contes cruels" by the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and from "La Légende d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak" by Charles de Coster.
 Some of the musical material is based on Dallapiccola's earlier choral work on a similar theme, "Canti di prigionia" (1938).
 Dallapiccola composed "Il prigioniero" in the period of 1944–1948.
 The work contains seven parts and lasts about 50 minutes.
 The musical idiom is serialism, and it is one of the first completed operas using that compositional method.
The Seventh Floor (Italian: Il fischio al naso ) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by and starring Ugo Tognazzi.
 It is based on the short story "Sette piani" by Dino Buzzati, featured in the 1942 short story collection "The Seven Messengers".
 The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.
Anna Maria Ortese (June 14, 1914 in Rome – March 10, 1998 in Rapallo, Genoa) was an Italian short story writer and a poet.
 She was best known for her 1953 short story "Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli," which depicted the abject conditions of Naples following World War II.
 She once said, “We write because we look for companionship, then we publish because we get paid a little bit of money."
José Miguel Vilar-Bou (born April 5, 1979, Alfafar, Valencia) is a contemporary Spanish novelist, short story writer, and journalist, specializing in horror fiction, science-fiction and fantasy.
 His work has been awarded with several prizes in literary competitions.
 His novel "Alarido de Dios" ["The Cry of God"] was a finalist for the Awards Celsius 2010 and his short story "El laberinto de la araña" ["The Spider's Labyrinth"] received in the same year the Nocte Award for the best Spanish horror story.
 In the Spanish "Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo" ["Natural History of the Weird Tales"], because of the "expeditious and accurate in its proposal", critic José L. Fernández Arellano mentioned this author's story "La luz encendida" as leading among the young writers' of the genre of horror in Spain.
Cinque variazioni ("Five variations") is a composition for solo piano by Luciano Berio, written in 1952/3 and greatly revised in 1966.
 It was published by Suvini Zerboni and the first performance was given by Berio in Milan in 1953.
 The variations are based on a three-note melodic cell—""fratello""[014]—from the opera "Il prigioniero" by Luigi Dallapiccola, to whom the work is dedicated .
 Major changes between the two versions are indicated below, but many other small changes may be found, mostly additions to render the harmony more complex.
La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo is an Italian television miniseries (two-part TV film) based on the true story of Don Pietro Pappagallo (1888–1944), a Catholic priest and Italian anti-fascist who assisted victims of Nazism and Fascism in Rome during World War II and was arrested and executed in the Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944.
"The Hitch-Hiker" is a short story by Roald Dahl that was originally published in the July 1977 issue of the "Atlantic Monthly", and later included in Dahl's short story collection "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More".
 The story features a man who picks up a hitch-hiker whilst driving to London.
 The pick-pocketing of a policeman's notebook during a traffic stop closely follows "Hitch-Hike", a 1960 episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" based on a short story by Ed Lacy.

Question: Were Il prigioniero and La buona figliuola based on the same short story?
Answer: no