szkoła-i-dom: Cinderella

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Cinderella (or The Little Glass Slipper) is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable fortune, ultimately ascending to the throne through marriage. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story is usually considered to be the Greek story of Rhodopis, as described by the scholar Strabo sometime between 7 BC and 23 AD, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt. The first literary Western version of the story was the Italian tale La Gatta Cenerentola—originally titled La Gatta Cennerentola—written by Giambattista Basile in the Neapolitan…

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Re-envisioning Neapolitan fairy tales: Genre blending and local–global tensions in Il racconto dei racconti (2015) and Gatta Cenerentola (2017). This article brings into dialogue Il racconto dei racconti ( Tale of Tales ) (2015), directed by Matteo Garrone, and Gatta Cenerentola ( Cinderella the Cat ) (2017), directed by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri and Dario Sansone. Both cinematic productions drew from Giambattista Basile’s collection of Neapolitan fairy tales Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille ( The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones ) (1634–36). By interrogating the Neapolitanness – or lack thereof – of these renditions of Basile’…

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"Petrosinella" is a Neapolitan fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his collection of fairy tales in 1634, Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), or Pentamerone, as the first story of the second day. It is Aarne–Thompson type 310 "the Maiden in the Tower", of which the best known variant is "Rapunzel", and it is the earliest recorded variant of this tale known to exist.

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"Sun, Moon, and Talia" (Italian: Sole, Luna, e Talia) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and published posthumously in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as "Sleeping Beauty", as did the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as "Little Briar Rose". The version is best known for its graphic themes of rape and attempted cannibalism. It is Aarne-Thompson type 410; other tales of this type include The Glass Coffin and The Young Slave.

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The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti (lit. 'The Tale of Tales'), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.

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Giambattista Basile (15 February 1566 (date of baptism) – 23 February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as Il Pentamerone. Born in Naples into a middle-class family, Basile was a soldier and courtier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venice. In Venice he began to write poetry. Later he returned to Naples to serve as a courtier under the patronage of Don Marino II Caracciolo, prince of Avellino, to whom he dedicated his idyll L'Aretusa (1618). By the time o…