Pentamerone
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The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti, is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.
Illustration by George Cruikshank (1847) to The Stone in the Cock's Head
Il Pentamerone from a 1788 edition, Naples
Neapolitan language
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Neapolitan is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of the area, since the city of Naples was its capital. On 14 October 2008, a law by the Region of Campania stated that Neapolitan was to be protected.
1895 song in Neapolitan.
Giambattista Basile (1566–1632), author of a collection of fairy tales in Neapolitan that includes the earliest known versions of Rapunzel and Cinderella
Neapolitan text at the Scampìa Carnival; note the definite article 'o.
Viola Carofalo wearing a T-shirt with Neapolitan je so’ pazzo ("I am crazy.")