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    Matteo Bandello (c. 1480–1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, Dominican friar and bishop, best known for his novellas. His collection of 214 novellas...
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  • often in the forms of de Matteo, De Matteo or DeMatteo, meaning "[descendant] of Matteo". Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist Matteo Berrettini (born 1996)...
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    Rich's short story "Of Apollonius and Silla", based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first documented public performance was on 2 February 1602, at...
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    back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale written by Matteo Bandello and translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet...
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    cosmography, morals, literature and history, and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello, Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Lodovico Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil...
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    Garigliano, stems from a novella by the contemporary Italian writer Matteo Bandello in which Cromwell is portrayed as a page to a foot-soldier, carrying...
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    verse translation of a French translation of a 1554 adaptation by Matteo Bandello. Although both Salernitana and da Porto claimed that their stories...
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    that is dated June 9, 1524. The novel was taken up 30 years later by Matteo Bandello. The novel was published posthumously and anonymously about 1531 in...
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    story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived from an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello. The plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place over four days...
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  • The birth of their first child was marked by a novella by the poet Matteo Bandello. She died soon after her third child's birth and was buried in the...
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    labeled her as the "liberal and magnanimous Isabella", while author Matteo Bandello described her as "supreme among women". Diplomat Niccolò da Correggio...
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    stabbed to death at the hands of assassins. These events inspired Matteo Bandello to write his twenty-fourth novel. Two tragedies were taken from this:...
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    noble lovers"). These three stories, plus another later version by Matteo Bandello and the English translation by Arthur Brooke in the poem Tragicall...
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    families. In 1554, Matteo Bandello published the second volume of his Novelle which included his version of Giulietta e Romeo. Bandello emphasises Romeo's...
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    dissension. The name Paris was first given to il conte di Lodrone by Matteo Bandello, whose novella on the tragedy was first published in Lucca in 1554...
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    nor her money. Delio – A courtier, who tries to woo Julia. Based on Matteo Bandello's self-depiction under this name, his purpose is to be the sounding...
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  • stories in Europe were the darkly tragic "novella" of Italian author Matteo Bandello, especially in their French translation. The mid 17th century in France...
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    me", and the consternation that this statement caused. The writer Matteo Bandello observed Leonardo at work and wrote that some days he would paint from...
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  • in Milan he met Matteo Bandello, who later published the story of these events. The story was picked up by many other writers. Bandello says that the Duchess...
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  • Aventinus 1477–1534 Francis Bacon 1561–1626 English Jacob Balde 1604–68 Matteo Bandello 1485–1561 Italian Ermolao Barbaro Hermolaus Barbarus 1453/1454–1492...
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    still more closely resembling the novels of Cinthio's contemporary, Matteo Bandello. Something may be said in favour of their professed claim to represent...
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    Lisabetta da Messina – IV day IV Novel, Gerbino ed Elissa (1351) Matteo Bandello – Novelliere First Part, novel XXII (1554) William Shakespeare – Much...
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  • life of Antonio Beccadelli is mostly derived from Matteo Bandello's account of the events. Bandello probably knew Beccadelli personally when the latter...
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    Vida, Gian Giorgio Trissino and Bibbiena, writers of novelle like Matteo Bandello, and a hundred other literati of the time were bishops, or papal scriptors...
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  • the Florentine History of Niccolò Machiavelli and in the fiction of Matteo Bandello. Witchcraft was a topical subject in the era Middleton wrote, and was...
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    Alessandria) and that he was the nephew of Vincenzo Bandello (uncle of the novelist Matteo Bandello), the prior of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie...
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    Colonna (probably the writer of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) and Matteo Bandello. Many Dominicans took part in the artistic activity of the age, the...
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  • however, founded on the tale of Nicuola and Lattantio as told by Matteo Bandello. The eighth, Phylotus and Emilia, a complicated story arising from...
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  • Aelian, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Matteo Bandello, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Queen Marguerite...
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    the play ends. Shakespeare's immediate source may have been one of Matteo Bandello of Mantua's Novelle ("Tales"), possibly the translation into French...
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