Excerpt from The Pentamerone or the Story of Stories Greek, and Arabic words, so that even Italians born can neither read it nor under stand ir when spoken. Translators of Basile's work into the current speech of Italy therefore soon appeared, but the gross licentious language, the impropriety inter mingled with but too many of the tales, rendered them unfit for youthful readers, notwithstanding that Basile had placed as a second title on his frontispiece the words, A musementfir the Little Ones. A German eighteenth-century savant of the name of Femow first drew general European atten tion to the work, which was afterwards trans lated by another German, Felix Liebrecht, to which book the learned student of Folk lore, Dr. Jacob Grimm, afiixed a weighty preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.