Peruonto
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Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Giambattista Basile
- Genre
- fairy tale
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- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index
- 675
- publication date
- 1634-00-00
- published in
- Pentamerone
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- Peruonto
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Encyclopedic overview
33 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Analysis
- Tale type
- Mythological parallels
- The "half-man" hero
- Variants
- Literary variants
- Distribution
- Europe
- Ireland
- France
- Southern Europe
- Italy
- Germany
- Denmark
- Iceland
- Finland
- Norway
- Estonia
- Lithuania
- Sámi people
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Poland
- Kalmyk people
- Americas
- Asia
- Adaptations
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Peruonto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Despite its origins as a literary tale, variants are recorded from oral tradition across Europe, in the Americas, and even in Asia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peruonto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.