to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to awaken when the princess does.

Though a precursor narrative appears in the anonymous romance Perceforest (written in French between 1330 and 1344) and in the Catalan poem Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser, scholars generally regard "Sun, Moon, and Talia" by Italian author Giambattista Basile as the first fully developed literary version