account modern society especially italian one 's also well known refined translator english german ancient italian children 's literature italy long history children 's literature ''pentamerone'' italy became first major published collection european folk tales ref name reynolds ref ''pentamerone'' contained first literary european version story cinderella author giambattista basile created collections fairy tales include oldest recorded forms many well known european fairy tales giovanni francesco straparola released ''the facetious nights straparola'' called first european
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