An illustration for Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone by George Cruikshank, 1848. The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile (1583-1632).

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