Giambattista Basile’s “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”
Translated by Nancy L. Canepa • Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere • Foreword by Jack Zipes
Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
“Nancy Canepa’s translation of Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti makes a truly significant contribution to fairy-tale studies in the English-reading world.”
—Cristina Bacchilega, author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and professor of English at University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa
“With stories marked by vertiginous fantasy, spirited wit, and baroque excess, Basile redefined the fairy tale for European audiences. Nancy Canepa’s splendid new translation captures all the narrative energy and stylistic élan of The Tale of Tales and ensures that this collection will finally receive the attention it deserves.”
—Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Off With Their Heads!