Basile (English spelling) Giambattista Basile

Japanese: バジーレ - ばじーれ（英語表記）Giambattista Basile

Around 1575 - 1632
Italian poet and folk tale writer. Born in Naples, he showed a talent for poetry from an early age and wandered around Italy. As an adult, he joined the Venetian military (1604-07) to support himself, and served in the defense of Crete and in Naples and Calabria (1608-12). At the recommendation of his sister, who had made a name for herself as a singer, he served the Gonzaga family in Mantua from 1612 to 1613, and was a prominent courtier there. He published a collection of skillful poems in the Marino style that he had published individually in the Collected Poems (1613), but his later works, written in the Neapolitan dialect under the pen name Gian Alessio Abbatutis, such as the poems The Neapolitan Graces (1635) and Tales within Tales, i.e. Amusements for the Little Ones (1634-36), also written in the Neapolitan dialect, are more important documents in terms of folk literature, dialectology, and social history.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1575ころ‐1632
イタリアの詩人，民話作家。ナポリに生まれ，幼少から詩才を現して，イタリア各地を放浪した。長じて生活のためにベネチア共和国の軍人(1604‐07)となり，クレタ島の防衛に加わったり，ナポリやカラブリア地方で軍務(1608‐12)に就いたりした。歌手として名をあげた妹の推挙で，1612‐13年マントバのゴンザーガ家に仕え，宮廷人としても著名であった。個別に発表していたマリーノ風の技巧的な詩編をまとめて《作品集》(1613)を刊行したが，それよりも晩年にジャン･アレッシオ･アッバットゥーティスの筆名でナポリ方言を用いてつづった詩編《ナポリの美神》(1635)や，同じくナポリ方言で書いた《物語のなかの物語，すなわち幼い者たちの楽しみの場》(1634‐36)のほうが，民衆文学，方言学，社会史などの側面から，重要な文献となった。

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