The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale)
"The Love for the Three Oranges" or "The Three Citrons" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone. It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroine of the frame story uses to reveal that an imposter has taken her place.
The prince releases the fairy woman from the fruit. Illustration by Edward G. McCandlish for Édouard René de Laboulaye's Fairy Book (1920).
The ugly slave sees the image of a beautiful woman in the water. Illustration from The Enchanted Canary, from The Red Fairy Book (1890).
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