Un cuento clásico y muy conocido por todos contado en su versión más antigua escrita. Las ilustraciones me han gustado mucho, conocer la historia del autor del cuento también.

PETROSINELLA o PREZZEMOLINA de Giambattista BasileEste cuento es claramente el antecedente de Rapunzel. Se trata de una mujer embarazada llamada Pascadozia quien durante su embarazo tuvo un antojo terrible por comer perejil, pues su vecina que era una ogra tenía un huerto donde habían muchos. Cumplió su antojo pero en una de esas veces fue sorprendida por la ogra quien acusándola de ladrona le hizo jurar del miedo que le daría el hijo que llevaba en el vientre. Nació una niña muy guapa y le puso...

I thought this was a great retelling of the Rapunzel story. Like Sugar Cane, it gives a way for students to observe other cultures while comparing it to their own original telling of the story. I would keep it in my classroom for that reason.

If only intellectual honesty was common among contemporary writers...

Now that see the illustrations (which are very nice) I think I read this one as a child. It's an earlier version of Rapunzel story, from Italy, with the same basic set-up (the stolen salad greens, the tower, the long hair) but a lot of differences, including omitting the pregnancy and blinding, and instead having the prince and prisoner make their escape together.Here a not-so-dumb Petrosinella is eavesdropping on the ogress as she discussed magic with her friend.

Me gusta más esta versión que la de los hermanos Grimm. Es mucho menos angst y Petrosinella (Rapunzel/Ruiponce) sale mejor librada porque es ella misma quien resuelve sus desdichas, en lugar de esperar que venga un hombre a rescatarla.¡Mejor aún ver a Petrosinella como invocadora de bestias!

This book is amazing. An adaptation of the Basile fairy-tale I was most disappointed (along with Sun, Moon, and Talia) didn't make it into the "Tale of Tales" movie. This lavishly illustrated version of Petrosinella, or Little Parsley, follows the original Neopolitan fairy-tale to the T, except for one strange exception I noticed -- Petronsinella sings. Strangely enough, Basile's heroine did not traditionally sing as Grimm's Rapunzel later would. The singing subplot arrived on the scene with the...

A take on an old fairy tale.It's also adapted from Basile, since Basile's high-faluting language has been cut down. (How high-faluating? Well, what this book called a forest so dark and frightening few ventured there, a more literal translation said, "a wood which the horses of the Sun never entered, not having paid the toll to the pastures of those Shades."And it's not quite fair to call this a Neopolitan Rapunzel. Much reasonable to call Rapunzel a German Petrosinella, since Rapunzel came late...

By this point I have determined that I really like the Rapunzel fairytale. I liked this one in particular because rather than getting the husband to get what she wants, the wife in the beginning of this story does it herself and therefore has to take ownership of her own actions, and what it leads to. I liked it more than having the husband make choices about the child.I also found it very interesting that we have had a woman, fairy and ogre as the different people who lock up or monitor Rapunze...

An old-forgotten fairy tale and the basis of the story of Rapunzel. Beautiful illustrations.

This was such an interesting version of Rapunzel. She takes control of her own fate much more than in the other three versions I read. She defeats her captor herself. I am really enjoying Basile's tales, both for their dark humor and satire and for their differences from the other versions. He makes me laugh out loud.

Petrosinella is a version of the popular "Rapunzel" story, made popular by the Brother's Grimm. This version precedes the Brothers Grimm story by almost 200 years, according to the author, Diane Stanley, resulting in a rich look into the stories and traditions from earlier times.In the story, a woman is caught stealing enticing parsley from an ogress' garden, resulting in the loss of the women's first born child to the witch. Locking up the girl, appropriately named Petrosinella, meaning parsley...

In Petrosinella, a mother-to-be lives next to an ogress who has a beautiful garden full of delicious-looking herbs, which the mother wants to eat (specifically the parsley). One day, she decides to go into the ogress's garden when she's not home, but one day turns into two, and two into three, and so on; soon, the ogress begins to suspect theft and catches the pregnant woman in the act of stealing the herb. In order to protect herself from being killed on the spot, the woman promises to give the...

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This is the earliest version that became the base for the Grimm's fairy tale (that predates the Grimms by 200 years) written by Giambatista Basile in 1637. Here heroine's name comes from "petrosine" for parsley. Petrosinella is quite different from the Grimm's Rapunzel. Here the women take a more active part in the plot. Petrosinella birth mother, the ogress - the witch in the later English version and Petrosinella is a more strong, active character not just a girl who needs to be rescued. The e...

Beautiful story, gorgeous illustrations

When a pregnant woman is caught stealing parsley from her ogress-neighbor's garden in this classic fairy-tale from Naples, the unfortunate lady is forced to promise her unborn child as payment, in order to avoid death. Taking the child into the forest, the ogress imprisons her in a tall tower, where she grows to womanhood. When a handsome prince (naturally) happens by and discovers Petrosinella, the two fall in love, eventually escaping. But can they outrun the ogress...? Recorded some two hundr...

This is an Italian version of Rapunzel from sometime in the late 1500s or early 1600s, republished with illustrations in 1981. This particular version is illustrated by Diane Stanley, who appears to have signed my copy of this book to myself and my sister while we were in elementary school. The illustrations are luscious - crisp and elegant, they have exquisite detail. The main character is drawn with a gorgeous Italian Renaissance Madonna face. The story itself is the usual insipid muddle of bo...

Diane Stanley's author's note is interesting, as is the story. The whole bit about the blind prince, the desert, the twins, is missing, as is the girl's father. I loved the pictures, though some might find them just a bit too pretty. Highly recommended to anyone who explores older folklore and fairy tales. But I wonder if children like it? Sentimental girls, but anyone else?I will look for more by Stanley, for both her art and her voice in this adaptation.

This was my favorite book as a child. If you ask my parents, they said I drug it out every night for the bedtime story. I still have a copy, and read it periodically.This is an Italian retelling of Rapunzel, and it is creative, imaginative and heartwarming. This tale, in my view, has a depth of emotion that a lot of fairy tales lack. I love the added, different elements in this version.The illustrations are beautiful as well. Intricate detail, vibrant colors, they bring the story to life.A wonde...