Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice A similar arrangement in the 14th century Il Pecorone Pound of Flesh (2015 film), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme Pound of Flesh...

Il Pecorone, often referred to in English as The Golden Eagle, is an Italian collection of stories written between 1378 and 1385 by Giovanni Fiorentino...

betrothal ring in payment are all elements present in the 14th-century tale Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino, which was published in Milan in 1558. Elements...

Some elements of The Merry Wives of Windsor may have been adapted from Il Pecorone, a collection of stories by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino; one of these stories...

Bassanio has his origins from two texts called Gesta Romanorum and Il Pecorone. The origin of the casket plot comes from the Gesta Romanorum. In contrast...

the American they were given new names sourced from the Italian work Il Pecorone, a 14th-century short story collection attributed to Giovanni Fiorentino...

Switzerland. John Dee – Propaedeumata Aphoristica Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – Il Pecorone (The Simpleton) John Knox (published anonymously) – The first blast of...

was a 14th-century Florentine writer, to whom is attributed the work Il Pecorone ("The Simpleton"). This was a collection of short stories, purportedly...

it Shakespearian, it was based in part on Trecento Italian works – Il Pecorone by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, and Boccaccio's Decameron. Boito adopted a...

statale 19 delle Calabrie passing from the south through the hamlet of Pecorone di Lauria. Along the perimeter of the lake there is a 1-kilometer road...

accepted sources for The Merchant of Venice are Giovanni Fiorentino's Il Pecorone (c. 1380s) and Richard Robinson's English translation of the Gesta Romanorum...

only in its external form. Giovanni Fiorentino wrote, under the title of Pecorone, a collection of tales, which are supposed to have been related by a monk...

Characters Shylock Antonio Bassanio Portia Jessica Sources Gesta Romanorum Il Pecorone The Jew of Malta On screen 1914 1916 1923 Shylock (1940) 1953 1961 1969...

Tale in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is also found in the Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino (1378), and closer to home in William Painter's...

The subjects are secular, stories from various romances, including Il Pecorone (The Golden Eagle) and classical mythology. The current presentation does...