The Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins, episode 9, tangled. The Oh, In many ways Rapunzel is the least well known of all the best known fairy tales.

Unlike many fairy tales, Rapunzel emerged not from oral tradition, but straight from written literature.

In 1637, a collection of fairy tales was written in Naples called Il Pentamorone, also known as Locunto de la Kunti, the Tale of Tales.

It's a lot like Jeffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the thousand and one knights.

It's a collection of tales told within a larger frame story.

It was written by a Neapolitan poet, courtcher, and fairy tale collector named

Jan Batista Bicile, which was published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy,

under the pseudonym Janelizio Abatutis.

Although it was ignored and neglected for some time,

the work received a great deal of attention after the Brothers Grimm

praised it highly as the first national collection of fairy tales.

Many of these stories are the oldest known variants in existence and many of our best known

fairy tales such as Snow White Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella have histories

reaching back to Basile's work. A story called Petrasinella is included in El Pentemorone,

which bears a similarity too striking to be a coincidence to the Grim's Rapunzel,

and it provided the fodder for future Rapunzel stories.

While Petracinea didn't come from

folklore directly, unlike the Grimm's version, there's no doubt it took shape under the influence of the

oral tradition, history, legend, and culture of its time.

But it doesn't end there.

60 years later in 1698, Charlotte Rose de Camant de la Force,

a French aristocrat, published her own version of the tail during the height of the French salons.

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