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 .
The Pentamerone or Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille ( `` The Tale of Tales , or Entertainment for Little Ones '' ) is a seventeenth-century collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile .