Sun, Moon, and Talia
Italian literary fairy tale / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sun, Moon, and Talia (Italian: Sole, Luna, e Talia) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and published posthumously in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as Sleeping Beauty, as did the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as Little Briar Rose.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 410; other tales of this type include The Glass Coffin and The Young Slave.[1]