in 1847 and again by Sir Richard Francis Burton in 1893 and into Italian by Benedetto Croce in 1925. Another English translation was made from Croce's version by Norman N. Penzer in 1934. A new, modern translation by Nancy L. Canepa was published in 2007 by Wayne State University Press, and was later released as a Penguin Classics paperback in 2016. Adaptations The 2015 Italian film Tale of Tales, directed by Matteo Garrone, is generally based on stories from the collection. References Sources Further reading Albanese, Angela, Metamorfosi del Cunto di Basile. Traduzioni, riscritture, adattamenti, Ravenna, Longo, 2012. Hurbánková, Šárka. (2018). "G. B. Basile and Apuleius: First literary tales. morphological analysis of three fairytales". In: Graeco-Latina Brunensia. 23: 75–93. 10.5817/GLB2018-2-6. Praet, Stijn. "“Se lieie la favola”: Apuleian Play in Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti". In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 25: 315–332 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-017-0454-6 External links "La vita di Giambattista Basile" (in Italian) The complete text of Lo cunto de li cunti (in Neapolitan) Illustrations by Warwick Goble Illustrations by George Cruikshank Professor S. Cicciotti's page about G. B. Basile (in Italian) Online text of some stories, in English (from Taylor translation) 1634 books 1636 books Collections of fairy tales Children's short story collections Italian novels Italian fairy tales Culture in Naples 17th-century Italian literature Books adapted into films