17th-century Italian literature

thumb|200px|page=7|Il Pentamerone from a 1788 edition, Naples The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti (), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile.

The Seicento ( , ) is Italian history and culture during the 17th century. The Seicento saw the end of the Renaissance movement in Italy and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque era. The word means 'six hundred' and is short for , '1600'.