Exactly which fairy tale is Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird based on?

Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it.

As you know, I’m adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other fairy tale collections from that area that might have been around during the same time period.

I search for “Italian fairy tales,” find a list of stories, and figure I’ll just click on the ones I’m not familiar with and see when and wher...