sentences:  Scholarship point that the Italian version is the original appearance of the tale, with later variants appearing in French, by Le Chevalier de Mailly ("Incarnart, blanc et noir").A scholarly inquiry by Italian "Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi" ("Central Institute of Sound and Audiovisual Heritage"), produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, found fifty-eight variants of the tale across Italian sources.The tale was the basis for Carlo Gozzi's commedia dell'arte "L'amore delle tre melarance", and for Sergei Prokofiev's opera, "The Love for Three Oranges".