The collection of fairy tales by the Neapolitan writer and poet Giambattista Basile (1566–1632) is one of the most striking monuments of Italian Baroque literature. Using the plot outline of folk tales, combining with them the narrative techniques of the 14th-16th century novellas, Basile creates original works that give a vivid picture of the life and customs of his time, a gallery of psychologically reliable images that do not lose their freshness even four centuries later. Some of Basile's tales served as the basis for Charles Perrault's The Tales of Mother Goose, as well as for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.Peter Epifanov translated from ancient Greek monuments of Byzantine hymnography (Roman the Melodist, John of Damascus, Kozma Mayumsky), from French - philosophical works of Simone Veil, from Italian - poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Dino Campana, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni, Pier Paolo Pasolini.