Taylor translation) From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's "Lo cunto de li cunti" and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale, Nancy L. Canepa (Wayne State University Press, 1999) Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones", Translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Illustrated by Carmelo Lettere, Foreword by Jack Zipes (Wayne State University Press, 2007) 1583 births 1632 deaths Neapolitan language Collectors of fairy tales Italian Renaissance writers Italian poets Italian male poets 16th-century Neapolitan people People from Giugliano in Campania Italian children's writers Italian courtiers 16th-century Italian writers 16th-century male writers 17th-century Italian writers 17th-century Italian male writers 17th-century Neapolitan people Fabulists