WRITER

Giambattista Basile

1566 - 1632

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Giambattista Basile (Giugliano in Campania, 15 February 1566 (date of baptism) – February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giambattista Basile has received more than 400,993 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Giambattista Basile is the 663rd most popular writer (up from 668th in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from Italy (up from 822nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular Italian Writer.

Giambattista Basile is most famous for his collection of fairy tales titled "Lo cunto de li cunti" (The Tale of Tales).

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

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  • 64.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Stories from the Pentamerone
1911
Stories from Pentamerone
2002
Il pentamerone, ossia La fiaba delle fiabe
2001
The pentameron
1952
Il Pentamerone del caualier Giovan Battista Basile
1679
Pentamerone
Fairy tales
1850

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giambattista Basile ranks 663 out of 7,302. Before him are Camilo José Cela, Washington Irving, Frontinus, Ian McEwan, Isabelle de Charrière, and Aratus. After him are Ivan Goncharov, Irwin Shaw, Eduardo Galeano, Sugawara no Michizane, Theodore the Studite, and Matilde Camus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1566, Giambattista Basile ranks 6. Before him are Mehmed III, Sigismund III Vasa, James VI and I, Carlo Gesualdo, and Isabella Clara Eugenia. After him are Abraham Bloemaert, Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Sendivogius, Giovanni Baglione, Jan Jesenius, and Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1632, Giambattista Basile ranks 5. Before him are Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Sigismund III Vasa, Frederick V of the Palatinate, and Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly. After him are Tokugawa Hidetada, Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, Jost Bürgi, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Infante Carlos of Spain, and Francis II, Duke of Lorraine.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista Basile ranks 801 out of 5,161. Before him are Alessandro Algardi (1595), Nero Julius Caesar (6), Giuliano da Sangallo (1445), Clementia of Hungary (1293), Athalaric (516), and Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429). After him are Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Vittorio Monti (1868), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485), Il Sodoma (1477), Pope Benedict V (930), and Giovanna of Italy (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giambattista Basile ranks 56. Before him are Cassiodorus (487), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Poliziano (1454), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Giosuè Carducci (1835), and Pietro Metastasio (1698). After him are Carlo Gozzi (1720), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Andrea Camilleri (1925), Veronica Franco (1546), Emilio Salgari (1862), and Theognis of Megara (-570).

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