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Originally Posted by baddorfdeb
Silly question, but my Kindle hasn't arrived yet, so I can't just look for my answer. I'm just "book collecting" so far. Does the above description of the book appear *in* the book? I'll want to remember why I thought it would make good reading.
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The description I provided was not from the book. The only description in the book is a short note at the start:
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The collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637.
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