PETROSINELLA

'Petrosinella' or 'Parsley' is an Italian literary fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his collection of fairy tales in 1634, ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' (The Story of Stories), or ''Pentamerone''.[1]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 310 The Maiden in the Tower, of which the best known variant is ''Rapunzel'', and it is the earliest recorded variant of this tale known to exist.[2]

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1. Giambattista Basile, ''Pentamerone'', "Parsley"
2. Steven Swann Jones, ''The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination'', Twayne Publishers, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-8057-0950-9, p38


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