...This chapter examines “The Myrtle,” one of the most famous tales from Basile’s collection. Although the myth of Cupid and Psyche is still the foundation of this tale, “The Myrtle” also heavily borrows from the Apollo and Daphne myth. The dialogue between the two mythic tales leads to a sequence...

...This is a central chapter in my book. It examines how the Brothers Grimm and Clemens Brentano, three main figures of German Romanticism, interprets Basile’s The Tale of Tales and in particular the tale “The Myrtle.” For the Brothers Grimm Basile was the first collector of oral...