Sarnelli, Pompeo
Sarnelli, Pompeo (1649–1724),Italian writer and bishop. His edition of Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti (1674) used for the first time the title Pentamerone , by which Basile's work would subsequently be best known. His later work, the Posilicheata (An Outing to Posillipo, 1684), is composed of five fairy tales, probably of oral origin, that are told in Neapolitan dialect by peasant women at the end of a banquet in the country. The tales are: ‘La pietà ricompensata’ (‘Mercy Recompensed’), ‘La serva fedele’ (‘The Faithful Servant’), ‘L'ingannatrice ingannata’ (‘The Deceiver Deceived’), ‘La gallinella’ (‘The Young Hen’), and ‘La testa e la coda’ (‘The Head and the Tail’).
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Bibliography
Sarnelli, Pompeo, Posilicheata, ed. Enrico Malato (1986).
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