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The Pentamerone (Neapolitan subtitle: Lo cunto de li cunti, \"The Tale of Tales\") is a seventeenth-century fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.\r\nThe stories in the Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy, in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. These stories were later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the latter making extensive, acknowledged use of Basile\'s collection. Examples of this are versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel.\r\n\r\nWhile other collections of stories have included stories that would be termed fairy tales, his work is the first collection in which all the stories fit in that single category. He did not transcribe them from the oral tradition as a modern collector would, instead writing them in Neapolitan, and in many respects was the first writer to preserve oral intonations.\r\n\r\nThe style of the stories is heavily Baroque, with many metaphorical usages.\r\n\r\nThis has been interpreted as a satire on Baroque style, but as Basile praised the style, and used it in his other works, it appears to have no ironic intention.\r\n\r\n