The just-released film, “Tale of Tales,” is a fairy tale for adults, based on the book of the same name written by a 17th century Neapolitan named Giambattista Basile. Basile's writing predates even ...

Some two centuries before the Brothers Grimm, there was one grim brother indeed, Giambattista Basile. His “Il Pentamerone” was a collection of dark fairy tales published in 1634 that directly inspired ...

Matteo Garrone directs the project inspired and loosely based on 'Tale of Tales' by Giambattista Basile, a 17th century Neapolitan author recognized as the forerunner of worldwide fantasy literature.

Reading The Tale of Tales, Giambattisa Basile's 17th-century book of fairy stories, is both exhilarating and exhausting. If that sounds like a warning, it is. If that sounds like a promise, well, good ...

“Tale of Tales,” a luminous, loose adaptation of Giambattista Basile’s 17th-century fairy tale compilation by Matteo Garrone, evokes many tales, such as Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper,” Franz ...

Passed orally from one continent to another, the first literary edition of Cinderella the Cat was written by Giambattista Basile in Naples in 1636 – a crude and bloody version. The film is based on ...

Tale Summary There was once an old woman with three daughters. Two of them were very unlucky but the youngest, Nella, was perfect and lucky in every way, making the eldest sisters jealous. The girl ...

'Gomorrah' director Matteo Garrone serves up another series of interwoven Neapolitan episodes, this one hailing from fairy-tale pioneer Giambattista Basile. In this era of fairy-tale prequels, sequels ...