Where people gather, there are stories.

Where people gather, there are stories.

Prince Thadeus has assembled a number of female storytellers because his wife has been struck by a desire to hear stories. He opens the long telling session with the following words: ”There is nothing more pleasing and glorious in the world, O my noble women, than...
Pentamerone

Pentamerone

”There is nothing more pleasing and glorious in the world, O my noble women, than hearken to the deeds of others; and not without reason did Aristoteles, that great philosopher, place man’s greatest happiness in listening to pretty stories, since in hearkening to them...