Pentamerone

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. The collection consists of a frame story and 49 fairy tales. Ten old women tell the tales over five days. The collection contains many famous fairy tale types such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots". 

 References 
 Zipes, Jack (Ed.) 2000. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford UP. pp. 377-8.

 Other websites 
 "La vita di Giambattista Basile"  (in Italian)
 The complete text of Lo cunto de li cunti  (in Neapolitan)

 SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Il Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile
 Illustrations  by George Cruikshank
 Professor S. Cicciotti's page about G. B. Basile (in Italian)
 Online text of some stories, in English (from Taylor translation) 

Category:Fairy tales
Category:Collections of fairy tales